Adoption Authority ‘not aware’ of unmarked burials

The Adoption Authority of Ireland (AAI) has said it was “not aware” that a formerly accredited adoption agency owned an unmarked grave in which children were buried as late as 1990.

Last month, an Irish Examiner investigation uncovered three grave plots in St Finbarr’s cemetery in Cork City which contain the remains of at least 21 children.

Two of these graves are completely unmarked, while all three contain the remains of children from the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home.