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

    Valladolid archaeologists find human skull in chapel where Christopher Columbus was also buried
    by Sam Jones in Madrid and Rory Carroll in Dublin May 27, 2020 3 minutes
    The excavated site reveals a human skull and bones. Photograph: Mayor of Valladolid/Twitter

    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.

    He came to the country to lobby for a fresh Spanish invasion

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