Vraagtekens bij Ierse babylijkjes in septische tank
Hoewel het aantal van bijna achthonderd babylijkjes niet ter discussie staat, is het zeer twijfelachtig dat deze in een septische tank zijn gedumpt.
Waarschijnlijker is dat er sprake is geweest van één of meerdere graftombes in de vorm van een schacht.
Niettemin werd er zeker niet in alle gevallen keurig begraven:
Sweeney was 10 in 1975, and the friend he was with on that day, Frannie Hopkins, was 12. They dropped down from the two-and-a-half-metre boundary wall as usual, into the part of the former grounds that Corless and local people believe is the unofficial burial place for those who died in the home. “We used to be in there playing regular. There was always this slab of concrete there,” he says. […]
Between them the boys levered up the slab. “There were skeletons thrown in there. They were all this way and that way. They weren’t wrapped in anything, and there were no coffins,” he says. “But there was no way there were 800 skeletons down that hole. Nothing like that number. I don’t know where the papers got that.” How many skeletons does he believe there were? “About 20.”
