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In reply to the discussion: Tuam mother and baby home: the trouble with the septic tank story [View all]struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)associated with the home and thus documented 796 deaths; (2) Barry Sweeney says he and a friend, playing in the area in 1975 when he was about ten years old, found about 20 skeletons under a 1.2 x 0.6 square meter concrete slab there; and (3) there is archival evidence of a sewage tank somewhere in that area, before public services were connected in 1937
The larger site had been the public work-house since 1840 or before, and it apparently remained a county institution funded by public monies even after it became the Home staffed by Bon Secours. It's certainly possible the area in question has been used as a burial ground, though the current state of knowledge is very limited
... Local historian Catherine Corless carried out extensive research on the children who died at the home between 1925 and 1961 ... Her work with the help of the Galway Births and Deaths Registry showed 796 children died during that time but no burial records were available ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2651766/We-need-dig-babies-graves-Ground-Penetrating-Radar-reveals-lies-beneath-Tuam-Home-site.html
... Garda sources said while it was widely reported all of the deceased children had been buried in the plot and some in a septic tank, none of that detail had been properly tested to date ...
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/fitzgerald-seeks-garda-report-on-claims-over-tuam-babies-1.1823415
... A firm specialising in the use of Ground Penetrating Radar surveyed the site this morning ... The Department of Justice .. said, no, its not us, and the Gardai .. havent responded yet but it turns out that it was the Mail .. who paid for this team ... A Garda Detective did visit the site of the septic tank and what is believed to the burial location ... While there he interviewed Frannie Hopkins and Barry Sweeney who in 1975 found scores of corpses in a disused septic tank, but all of this was understood .. to <be> very unofficial ...
ttp://philipboucher-hayes.com/2014/06/06/tuam-what-lies-beneath/
... historian Liam Logan .. has discovered that the home never once left the hands of the County Council. In 1951, 10 years before it shut, the sisters were begging the board for a grant, saying that they were too ashamed to show councils part of the building which desperately needed renovations, the children were sleeping in attics in terrible conditions and the building were considered a fire risk ... It seems that the home shut after money wrangles, the County Council were simply not prepared to spend the money to upgrade the building which they owned, especially if it was later to be handed into the hands of the nuns ... Other interesting facts to have emerged are that the Mother Superior was a member of the NSPCC and that the ratepayers repeatedly talked about the unacceptable cost of the misfortunates ...
http://carolinefarrow.com/tag/barry-sweeney/