Excavations could soon start in Belgium to find the skeletal remains of 17th Century Irish Earl Patrick Sarsfield.
Sarsfield was the 1st Earl of Lucan and was literally a giant of his age, measuring an estimated 6’ 6”, and famously led the resistance of Irish Catholics in Limerick against England’s King William III.
Historians say he prevented the total destruction of the city – which has named a bridge, a bank and a square in his honour – before he fled to France with King James Stuart II after the 1690 Battle of the Boyne.
