Readers might remember the sensational claim that went around the world back in 2014 that almost 800 babies had been found in a septic tank on the grounds of an old mother and baby home in Tuam, County Galway, in the West of Ireland.
The claim was made when a local historian, Catherine Corless, had gone through the death certificates of 796 babies and young children who had died at the home over the years of its existence from 1925 until 1961.
Underneath the remaining grounds of what was the home are chambers that are located in something that was once part of the home’s sewage system. It was instantly concluded by many – although not by Corless, it should be noted – that the bodies had all been dumped in a septic tank.
