Sacred Ground

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From top: The Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork; A map indicating a children’s burial ground on the grounds of the former institution

This morning.

Via Irish Examiner:

In its decision, posted to participants in last month’s oral hearing on the project, the board said having regard to the fifth interim report and the final report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, and on the basis of the information submitted in the course of the application and oral hearing, it is not satisfied that the site was not previously used as and does not contain a children’s burial ground.

It said it considers that there are reasonable concerns in relation to the potential for a children’s burial ground within the site associated with the former use of the lands as a mother and baby home over the period 1922 to 1998.

Plan to build 179 apartments on Bessborough grounds rejected (Irish Examiner)

Last week: ‘Perhaps Forgetting Where They Were Buried Is A Way Of Forgetting That They Died’

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5 thoughts on “Sacred Ground

  1. Dr.Fart

    what a site. children were killed and buried there. now developers want to build luxury apartments on their graves. truly a site that gives you a picture of the Irish past and present. and other countries actually think we’re a lovely people.

  2. scottser

    there’ll be a couple of gaelers on to argue that no wonder there’s a housing crisis when people keep protesting against large scale housing developments.

    1. K. Cavan

      There ya go, scottser, right below you, in comes broadbag with the “common sense” approach: build a monument, then some apartments.

  3. Broadbag

    What do you do with it after you CPO it? The country is riddled with Bessboroughs, I’m not sure what purpose preserving them serves – build one monument and/or center commemorating the atrocities and move on.

  4. Donald McCarthy

    The green way to resolve this would surely be to build houses using the bones of the little buried bastards? Surely there’s an up and coming young architect (or architectress) who could design something edgy and ground-breaking?

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