Trinity College will return 13 human skulls to Inishbofin that were stolen over 130 years ago from the island.
The human remains, which are estimated to be 500-years-old, were taken from St Colman's monastery on the island by ethnologist Alfred Cort Haddon and student Andrew Francis Dixon in July of 1890. Haddon's journal recorded the theft and since then, the remains have been stored in Trinity.
The university decided on Wednesday to return the skulls to Inishbofin following a consultation process that was initiated last year. Trinity said that further engagement will now take place with the Inishbofin community to identify the appropriate way of returning the remains.
