Thurles campaign hoping to attract royal visit to historic grave

A local historian wants the new British king to visit the grave of Lady Elizabeth Poyntz in St Mary’s graveyard in Thurles while on his official trip to Ireland later this year. 

Britain's King Charles on a walkabout outside Buckingham Palace, London, on Friday. Picture: James Manning/PA Wire

A campaign is under way to invite the royal family to Co Tipperary to visit a graveyard where one of their distant relatives is buried.

Lady Elizabeth Poyntz — who died in 1673 and is buried in St Mary’s graveyard in Thurles — is an ancestor of Britain's King Charles.