ST MICHAN'S CHURCH


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St Michan’s Church in Church Street (near the Four Courts) is a seventeenth-century structure on the site of an eleventh-century Danish church. The strangest feature of St Michan’s is its vaults, where bodies have lain for centuries without decomposition, probably because of the dry atmosphere. Skin of the corpses remains soft as in life, but is brown and leather-like in appearance.