Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home

The Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, St Mary's Mother and Baby Home, or simply The Home, was a maternity home for unmarried mothers and their children that operated between 1925 and 1961 in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland. It gained notoriety due to revelations in 2014 of the apparent burial of up to 800 children's bodies in a mass grave on the site, and the high death rates of its residents. This is now the subject of a judicial inquiry.
The Home was run by the Bon Secours Sisters, a Catholic religious order of nuns. Unwed pregnant women were sent to the Home to give birth. Some of the poorer women were afterwards forced to work without pay, in reimbursement for some of the services rendered. They were separated from their children, who remained separately in the Home, raised by nuns, until they could be adopted - often without consent.
In 1975, two local boys had found a chamber filled with children's skeletons on the site. Some local people speculated it was a grave for Great Famine victims or unbaptised babies.