I would like to hear from children from “the Home” and clergy who worked there before I pass judgement. Infant and childhood mortality was quite high during this time, so 800 dead over many decades does not seem so over the top. As most orphanages are underfunded, especially during the Great Depression and War, they may have simply not had the resources for coffins.
Some might think that if a coffin can't be afforded, there are other options than throwing the body into a septic tank. Maybe not, though.
Your rationality is, I’m sure, not appreciated by many.
But keep at it. And thanks for presenting voice of reason and diligence.
I have a whole series of questions about this story.
Note that the grave is not “discovered”, rather people say that back in the 1970s two boys lifted a slab of an old septic tank, when they were playing on the convent grounds. They saw numerous little skeletons.
This is an unverified story - we are not even given the boy’s names. A local historian, Catherine Corless, says that she “knows” that these would have been the bodies of children who died during the years of the operation of that children’s home. But we need some evidence - does anyone even know exactly where this grave might be? And are we sure it contains 800 bodies? And are we sure this is not just a vague folk memory of discovering a mass pauper’s grave from the 19th century?