Holyhead, Anglesey is in Holy Island, Anglesey [Map].
On 28th October 1628 Richard Preston 1st Earl Desmond was drowned whilst travelling between Dublin [Map] and Holyhead, Anglesey.
John Evelyn's Diary. 12th October 1690. The French General, with Tyrconnel [aged 60] and their forces, gone back to France, beaten out by King William. Cork [Map] delivered on discretion. The Duke of Grafton [deceased] was there mortally wounded and dies. Very great storms of wind. The 8th of this month Lord Spencer [aged 49] wrote me word from Althorpe [Map], that there happened an earthquake the day before in the morning, which, though short, sensibly shook the house. The "Gazette" acquainted us that the like happened at the same time, half-past seven, at Barnstaple, Devon, Holyhead, Anglesey, and Dublin [Map]. We were not sensible of it here.
On 10th October 1918 Alexandra Phyllis Hamilton [aged 42] drowned whilst travelling from Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin to Holyhead, Anglesey aboard the mailboat RMS Leinster that was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UB-123.
On 24th February 1884 William Owen Stanley [aged 81] died. Monument in the Stanley Chapel, St Cybi's Church, Holyhead [Map] sculpted by William Hamo Thornycroft [aged 33].
