Irish Examiner view: Repatriate Defender of Limerick

The approximate location of Sarsfield's grave in St Martin’s Church in Huy, was marked by a plaque, but his exact burial place remained uncertain.

There are growing hopes that the body of General Patrick Sarsfield, the first earl of Lucan and ‘defender of Limerick’ could soon be repatriated to Ireland if finally — and positively — identified in its resting place in a country churchyard in the small city of Huy in Eastern Belgium.

Sarsfield, of course, led the Jacobean forces in Ireland of James II against the Williamite forces of King William III in the aftermath of the losses at the Battles of the Boyne and at Aughrim.