‘How many people in that grave have the right names?’
A Derry man shares his story of how the mother he never met spent 25 years in Good Shepherd Home and Laundry yet was buried under the wrong name in a ‘pauper’s grave’
The plot at Ardmore cemetery where 19 women are buried from the Good Shepherd laundry
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Bridget O’Connor was the sixth of nineteen laundry women to be buried in a communal grave at Ardmore Cemetery.
More importantly, she was a mother to four children.
But because she was not married those children were taken away from her.