In Tuam Co. Galway there is a small plot of ground that is the last resting place of almost 800 children.
Catherine Corless, a local historian and genealogist, was researching a home for unmarried mothers, run by the Bon Secours order, from the 1920s until the 1960s; when she discovered death records for 796 children, ranging from infants to children up to the age of nine. They were born to mothers from Galway, Mayo and possibly Roscommon.
She could find no record of their burial in graveyards in the county, or in areas where the mothers had been from and has concluded they are buried in this small plot that has been tended by a local couple for many years.
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as Catherine has compiled a full list of the names and is campaigning to erect a plaque in their memory.
