Excavation has started on a septic tank at a site located in Ireland after shocking and tragic news revealed that it was believed that the remains of more than 796 babies and kids that passed away at the home for unwed mothers were run by Catholic nuns.

Most of these infant remains are feared to have been dumped into the cesspool called the pit at the former institution located in the small town of Tuam, County Galway, and local historian Catherine Corless has shared with Sky News.

As a whole, 798 kids passed away at the residence between 1925 and its closure in 1961, of which just two were buried inside the nearby cemetery.

The other remains of the children are said to be under this site of the Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, which was demolished in 1971 and is now surrounded by the modern apartment complex.

Bon Secours was a maternity home for the unmarried mothers and their kids, run by the religious order of Catholic nuns.

Unmarried individuals were going to be sent to the residence to give birth and would be interned for a year to do some unpaid work. They were separated from the newborn kids, who were said to be raised by the nuns until they were adopted.