Overview

• Teams began digging a 5,000-square-meter area at the former Bon Secours home in mid-July 2025 under a two-year plan.
• Forensic experts from Ireland, Colombia, Spain, the UK, Canada and the US are overseeing exhumation and analysis efforts.
• About 30 relatives have provided DNA samples so far to help match the remains of infants to living family members.
• The site is believed to hold the remains of some 796 infants who died at the home between 1925 and 1961.
• The excavation marks a critical step in addressing decades of institutional neglect and high child mortality in Ireland’s mother and baby homes.