there's probably no more known about castlepollard of the mother and baby homes.ve been? the real scene was that it was a 75—bed maternity hospital with 125 cots. it was a grey, grim, custom—built institution. standards were... in effect, it was a cross between a maternity hospital for single mothers and a low—to—medium security prison. the wards where the babies were kept were locked at night. the dormitories where the mothers were kept were locked at night. and there was one midwife at a time working in the place. there was no doctors or nurses. food was absolutely grim. it was a working farm. the girls were expected to work on the farm for, generally speaking, about two years, to supposedly repay the debt they owed the nuns for taking care of them, despite the fact the government was paying for their care. because these are women who would have been taken there by their own families. i would kind of have issues with that particular phrase now. ireland was, to all effective purposes, a theocracy for a lot of this time, and the church ruled the roost, and familie