Wider Search Sought after Remains Found at Tuam Home

By Elaine Edwards, Fiach Kelly
Irish Times
March 4, 2017

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Historian Catherine Corless at the site of a mass grave for children who died in the Tuam mother and baby home, Co Galway: remains were contained in at least 17 of 20 underground chambers. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire

Women who were in mother-and-baby homes as recently as the early 1990s have called for investigations into at least two other sites where children were buried after the remains of “several hundred” infants were found at a former home in Tuam.

Gardai confirmed they were liaising with the coroner’s office in Galway after the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation said excavations had uncovered “significant quantities” of foetal remains, as well as those of children aged up to three years.

The commission, chaired by Judge Yvonne Murphy, said it was shocked at the discovery.

The remains were contained in at least 17 of 20 underground chambers in what appeared to be a sewage-related structure. It is understood the initial investigation confirmed several hundred bodies located there.