IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
Mass baby grave in Tuam, Galway: ‘The priest said Mass, then the grave was covered up again’
BY CAROLINE CRAWFORD – 06 JUNE 2014
The person who discovered the remains of hundreds of babies in a septic tank has recalled the “tiny skeletons” he encountered when he unearthed the grave when he was just 12 years old.
Frannie Hopkins was playing with a friend at the site back in 1975 when the pair noticed that one of the slabs covering an old septic tank had come loose.
“At the time we found a concrete slab over what I described at the time as a tank, I now see it was a tomb,” he said.
“We removed the lid and we found that it was full of skeletons; they appeared to be that of children. They were tiny skeletons, there just seemed to be an awful lot for one small little grave.
“A few days later, our parents told us not to go there, that the priest had been there and had said Mass and prayers and that the grave had been covered up again.”
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