First mass exhumation of children’s graves to begin in Tuam on June 16

The site of the mass grave at the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, Tuam, Co Galway. File picture: Padraig O'Reilly

The country’s first-ever mass exhumation of a children’s grave will begin on Monday, June 16, the Irish Examiner can reveal.

Work at the site where 796 children are believed to be buried in Tuam, Co Galway, is set to begin following a decade-long campaign by the families of the children who died there.