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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scolairebocht" data-source="post: 141967" data-attributes="member: 8">So the Tuam hoax has been in the news every other day all summer, even one twitter user remarked that it was in all the bulletins as he travelled South America! What we have now is the excavation of the site which includes the old, well recognised and consecrated, graveyard of the Children’s Home and the workhouse before that. The dig started in an area they knew would contain no human remains but nonetheless they did manage to find one human tooth and even that story is now flying around the world, even on BBC etc. They almost seem to be priming the sense of expectation which will explode ‘if’ (actually ‘when’ obviously) human infant remains are found there.In any case the interesting thing is that this dig has also uncovered some medieval pottery and I wonder if that could grow as an interesting development in this case. There is actually a lot of evidence that this exact site was the old palace of the Archbishops of Tuam, so hence they could find some interesting structures of that age here. What follows are a few historic references to this:–1032, up to circaToberjarlath, the townland in which the workhouse stood, was the original site of the monastic site and archbishopric founded by St Jarlath, until that was transferred to Temple Jarlath, inside the modern town centre, sometime between 947 and 1032. (1)1288, soon after 3rd JulyAmong the records housed in the National Archives in Kew Gardens in London, from the original papers of the English administration here, we have this:1447, 19 MarchThis is an interesting reference from the Papal records in Rome:[ATTACH=full]7998[/ATTACH]1723, 25 JuneIf you look at the accompanying early Ordnance Survey map of c.1840 you can see how maybe the townland of Farrannabox might have originally encompassed the site of the Children’s Home. Note the way it seems to encircle that area, the arrow you see shows the famous site on your news bulletins all the time (part of which is actually in Farrannabox) and the workhouse occupied the large area just North of that. If so this might be of interest from the Registry of Deeds of this date, of course a ‘castle’ could be the old palace:[ATTACH=full]7999[/ATTACH]1962, 3 NovemberThis is written by John J Waldron, whose family owned a shop where Brogue’s pub now stands in Tuam and who later lived in Galway city, and we are told:There is actually now a plague to him in Tuam, because of his great work and fame as an historian in the town. Anyway this is what he said in some historical notes that he contributed to the Tuam Herald in 1962 (its clearly by him but its only his later historical notes, of the early 70s, that carry his name):So this hoax could end up doing some good work if they find artefacts from historic Tuam!by Brian Nugent, <a href="http://www.orwellianireland.com" target="_blank">http://www.orwellianireland.com</a>Footnotes1. Dr Anthony Claffey, A Irish Historic Town Atlas no 20 Tuam (Dublin, 2009), p.11. On p.18 he says the original Archbishop’s residence is unknown but “possibly Dublin Rd E.” I got most of these subsequent references from this book at that page.2. Henry Savage Sweetman, Calendar of Documents relating to Ireland, 1285-1292 (London, 1879) vol iii, p.180-1.3. Jessie Alfred Twemlow, Calendar of entries in the Papal Registers relating to Great Britain and Ireland AD 1447—1455 (London, 1915) vol x, p.333-4.4. ROD 38-191-23927.5. Tuam Herald 18/7/1987, p.17.6. Tuam Herald 3/11/1962, p.7.</blockquote>

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