“Tánaiste and Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald said the discovery is an infinitely sad reminder of an Ireland that was a “very harsh, harsh place” for women and their babies.”

You can be sure, this is not the only location where such disregard for respectful burials have occurred. Any reparation efforts to match DNA to living relatives will be costly.

See video naming 796 foundlings buried in unmarked graves at an Irish mother-baby home and a series of other interviewees.