Spanish dig closes in on burial site of Irish lord Red Hugh O'Donnell

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Somewhere beneath a street in north-west Spain – probably between a bank branch and a budget clothes shop – lies the ruined chapel where an eight-toed rebel Irish lord was buried after his final, fatal mission 418 years ago.

Red Hugh O’Donnell, who escaped captivity and led a rebellion that almost expelled the Tudor English forces from Ireland, fled to Spain after the Battle of Kinsale in 1602 when the rebels tried to team up with a beleaguered Spanish expeditionary force.

Using records, digital technology and the only surviving plan of the monastery, which dates from 1835, the team set about looking for the chapel.

“We’ve been piecing together the plans and looking for the trail over the past 200 or 300 years to find out where certain walls and lines are now,” said Burón.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/27/spanish-dig-closes-in-on-burial-site-of-irish-lord-red-hugh-odonnell

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