Trip to Post Office rescues the head

A PIECE of archaeological history might have been lost forever if it wasn’t for one man’s necessity to post a letter.Séamus Lynch of Athenry, who describes himself as “an amateur historian” knew there was a stone head, believed to be dating back to the 14th Century, embedded in a wall to the rear of a building around the corner from him.One day last week, he went to post a letter only to see the building, not far from the town square, in the process of being demolished.Mr. Lynch approached the builders and asked them about the stone but they knew nothing of it but offered to help him look for in amongst a rubble of bricks and mortar. Mr. Lynch told The Tribune this week his immediate reaction was one of devastation at such a loss and believed in a million to one chance of finding the stone head intact.But that’s what he found — the very stone head, intact, in the rubble. “I couldn’t believe it. I thought it was gone forever, this stone, which we called 'the Bishop’s head’ when we were children.“The workers helped me retrieve it and we…..