Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1906 — An Irish Giant. [ARTICLE]

An Irish Giant.

A curious discovery was made at Bristol. England, the other day, when workmen engaged on excavations near an ancient Roman Catholic chapel unearthed in h deep trench the coffin of Patrick O’Brien, a giant from Kinsaie, Ireland, who died in Bristol UK) years ago. Ills height was over eight feet, and records show that his coffin was laid iu a rock cavity protected by iron bars as a safeguard against disturbance by robbers. The leaden shell had perished when the trench was opened, disclosing the remains, and identity was established by the breastplate on the coffin.