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Tuam: The sad legacy of a byegone time
05 Jun 2014; posted by editor - General

The Guardian has reported that the bodies of 796 children, between the ages of two days and nine years old, have been found in a disused sewage tank in Tuam, County Galway. They died between 1925 and 1961 in a mother and baby home under the care of the Bon Secours nuns.