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Survivors from a mother and baby home in Co Westmeath have released a list of everyone known to have died at the facility.
The Castlepollard Mother and Baby home group released hundreds of names this morning in remembrance of their ‘crib mates’ as they call them.
There were at least 200 deaths at the home between 1935 and 1971.
It comes just weeks after the discovery of a mass grave at the Tuam mother and baby home.
The Castlepollard Mother and Baby home group consists of about 370 former residents, family members and supporters from the former home in County Westmeath.
About 4,000 women and girls went through the home and approx 4,000 babies were born there.
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