Bessborough survivor says children were barred from ‘sacred ground’ he now believes was burial site

Children in Bessborough were forbidden from entering an area known as “sacred ground”, an elderly survivor of the former Cork mother and baby home has claimed — and he now believes it may have been used as an unofficial burial site.

Joe Quinn, 90, who was born in Bessborough and spent his early childhood there, said he remembered being taken for a walk at the age of four and being told he could not enter a wooded area he now suspects was used for burials.

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