Ireland Prepares To Excavate 'Mass Grave' At Mother And Baby Home

Source: International Business Times

Historian Catherine Corless at the site of the former St Mary's Mother and Baby Home, in Tuam AFP Over a decade since a historian discovered an unmarked mass burial site for children at a former mother and baby home in western Ireland, workers finally began on Monday to prepare for extensive excavations. A crew sealed off the site in Tuam, 135 miles (220 kilometres) west of Dublin, in preparation for beginning to dig for any remains next month. In 2014, local historian Catherine Corless produced evidence that 796 children, from newborns to a nine-year-old, died at Tuam's mother and baby home.