A further 22 sets of infant remains have been recovered from the site of the former Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co Galway as excavation work continues there.
In its latest update, the Office of the Director of Authorised Intervention in Tuam (ODAIT) says forensic analysis is being carried out on each of the remains.
All had been interred in coffins, in an area marked on historical maps as a "burial ground".
The latest recoveries bring to 33 the total number of sets of infant remains found at this location.
All were buried there during the period that the home operated in Tuam, between 1925 and 1961.
The area in question is close to a memorial garden, where significant quantities of bones were found during an initial probe by the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, almost a decade ago.
The ODAIT said a total of 28 DNA samples have been taken from relatives of those who died in the home.
The office is working with a further 175 people who are interested in providing samples, to determine whether they meet the eligibility criteria set out in the legislation that governs the overall exhumation and identification effort.
The excavation work at the site began last July, 11 years after research by local historian Catherine Corless found there were no burial records for almost 800 infants and children who died in the Tuam home.
As well as remains from that period, a number of others from the time a workhouse operated on the site have also been found.
A further update on the excavation is due in April.
