ARTEFACTS: ‘Strongbow’s tomb’—nothing to deClare
By Stuart Kinsella Strongbow, or Richard fitz Gilbert de Clare, was buried in 1176 in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin ‘within sight of the hallowed cross’. So said Gerald of Wales, yet nothing is known of Strongbow’s tomb before it was damaged by the collapse of the cathedral’s south wall in 1562. A nearby mural … Read more