Overview
- A total of 796 children who died at the Tuam Mother and Baby Home are scheduled to be exhumed from the former septic tank site in July 2025.
- The home was run by the Bon Secours Sisters from 1922 until its demolition in 1972, leaving the septic tank intact beneath a modern housing development.
- DNA sampling will involve relatives proving family links to help identify the recovered remains.
- Official excavations were authorized by legislation in 2022, following the discovery of human remains in 2016 and 2017.
- Researcher Catherine Corless first exposed the mass grave in 2014, and activists have since denounced the Catholic Church and Irish government for their delayed response.