The Commission’s investigation of mother and baby homes covered many institutions with different governance, financial arrangements and practices between 1922 and 1998.
The Commission’s investigation of mother and baby homes covered many institutions with different governance, financial arrangements and practices between 1922 and 1998.
Some were owned and run by the local health authorities such as the county homes and Pelletstown, Tuam and Kilrush which employed some members of religious orders to run them.
Others were owned by religious orders – for example the three homes run by the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in Bessborough, Sean Ross Abbey and Castlepollard. As ‘extern’ homes they were not owned by the public assistance/health authorities but were largely paid for by those authorities.