Skeletal remains found may be Oliver Cromwell soldiers say experts

Seanmor, just to finish your story, Cromwell's head was cut off after his dead body had been hanged. The trunk was buried at Tyburn and his head was placed on a pike on top of Westminster Hall, which is next to the Houses of Parliament. Cromwell's head stayed there until about the mid 1800's when it was blown to the ground during a fierce gale. A solder sold the head for the price of a drink and it ended up being cemented into a wall at Cambridge University. it is still there.

Cromwell was an oligarch/dictator in the guise of a parliamentarian.

Cromwell was a republican.

If the bones are returned to London the UK Governent will have them declared 'fit for work'!

Few people seem to know that after Charles 11(whose father Charles 1 had been beheaded at the behest of Cromwell)became King of England), English Royalists exhumed the bodies of Cromwell, his son-in-law Ireton and the judge who sentenced Charles 1 to death, hauled to Tyburn and hanged them posrthumously. Thes Royalists were English Anglicans, but Irish Catholics would have agreed with them.

if they are anything to do with cromwell grind them into pig feed.

In a row near the castle ruin. Could be the family graveyard. Artifacts must have been found, would be nice to know what they suggested.

In the end, Cromwell’s primary legacy is facilitating the transfer of real power from the monarch to a ruthless mercantile oligarchy. In life, he dishonestly portrayed himself as a modest person whereas in reality he gloried in the wealth, vanity, and trappings of state (Venetian and other ambassadors provided accounts of his reign). His embodiment of mass murder, theft, and slavery, makes the large statute of him erected before parliament very appropriate. The Hell he and his offspring had the indigenous population shipped to in the West Indies may have been worse than the real article.

Smyrnian-Maybe he's in Heaven.

Cromwell did good? For who? He deserves his well earned place in hell.

jacersagain- a tad dramatic aren't you...

I should think that anglo-norman should visit and ask the surviving descendants of the Cromwellan Massacre in Drogheda and other descending survivors of his massacres elsewhere in Ireland and elsewhere, if Cromwell did a lot of good. The pain of loss of the survivors of the massacred people's families and their hatred of Cromwell exist to this very day.

Cromwell did a lot of good as well it must be remembered...

If they are Cromwell's soldiers, they should be shipped to London and let them decide. I would not want to see them do to these bodies what they did to Cromwell's upon the restoration of the monarchy.

PS East Galway!