Infant mortality in Ireland
Deaths/1000 births
1930    1950    1959
70      50      29

The above figures are approximate (from Fig. 1) Jour. Health Economics, Jan. 2011; Irish Life Tables and central Statistics Office.

The Tuam Bon Secours Nuns operated he home from 1926-1961.
There were 200 infants/children at the home in 1926 when they took charge.
There are 796 child death certificates for the entire period, or 22/year.
We do not know the condition of children admitted to the home, number of births at the home, number of children at the home/year or any other statistics.
All records were given to the government; none has been made public.

We know only that approx. 20 bodies were found in a burial shaft in 1975; none recovered since from the area (that was used as a septic field when the institution was a workhouse).

We do not know for certain how many bodies are at the site. Catherine Corless, who reported on the home and obtained copies of 796 death certificates, is "certain" that they are buried there.

Some interesting anomalies have been found by ground-penetrating radar, but nothing to indicate definitely that burials are there.

There are no burial records apparently.

The whole story became conflated and fictionized.

This thread has become an attack and defense of the Catholic Church and its hierarchy; with attacks on the Nuns for what seems the tenor of the times that they had the Home.

It would take a careful reader to sort out the few facts about the Home from the fantasy in most posts.

No new information has developed since June 14 in the Irish Press.