A Sligo Councillor has backed calls for a fresh investigation to be carried out into the Sean Ross Abbey Mother and Baby Home after the discovery of what’s believed to be mass baby graves.
Engineers working on the site who also surveyed the Bon Secours plot in Tuam has reported similar anomalies at the Co Tipperary site.
It’s being reported that several locations in the grounds of the abbey are showing signs of likely human activity beneath the surface.
Almost 1,100 babies died at the home in Roscrea between 1931 and 1969 – but only 42 infant remains were found by the Commission of Inquiry.
Sligo-Strandhill Councillor Gino O’Boyle says he is fearsome with what further excavations at the site could produce:
