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Grave in Ireland, mass grave with hundreds of babies discovered! Official excavations begin after decades of silence

2025-07-13 13:39:57Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Grave in Ireland, mass grave with hundreds of babies discovered! Official

Investigators have officially begun excavations at the site where 796 infants and young children are believed to have been secretly buried, who died between 1925 and 1961 at a Catholic institution for unwed mothers run by the Bon Secours nuns.

Excavations at the site of the former St Mary's Home for Mother and Child in Tuam town are expected to last two years, with the aim of identifying the remains and giving the victims a dignified burial.

The discovery of this mass grave came after the investigations of Catherine Corless, an amateur historian who in 2014 published the names of 796 dead children for whom there was no official burial record.

She discovered that many of the children had died under suspicious circumstances and their bodies were allegedly dumped in a former sewage tank.

Witnesses, including Mary Moriarty, recall that in the 1970s, neighborhood children discovered bones in a pit on the site of the house. Moriarty described the sight of “hundreds of small bodies wrapped in cloth, lined up one after the other to the ceiling.”

PJ Haverty, one of the survivors who lived six years in that institution, described the experience as “prison,” telling of the constant discrimination and stigmatization that he and others experienced.

An Irish government investigation in 2017 confirmed Corless' findings, revealing substantial human remains, including infants as young as 2-3 years old, as well as evidence of severe treatment and neglect.

Anna Corrigan, who discovered that she had two brothers who died in the institution, but for one of them there is no death certificate, says the children of Tuam now finally “have a voice and a name.” She has founded the Tuam Babies Family Group, which fights for justice and remembrance for the victims.

As the excavations begin, Ireland faces one of its most painful moments of coming to terms with the past, trying to bring peace to the hundreds of lives lost in silence.


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