the Plantation of Ulster. During the Irish Rebellion of 1641, many Protestant settlers fled to Armagh cathedral for safety. After negotiations with the besieged settlers, Catholic rebels occupied the town until May 1642. The cathedral was substantially rebuilt between 1834 and 1840 by Archbishop Lord John George Beresford and the architect Lewis Nockalls Cottingham. The fabric remains that of the mediaeval building but much restored. While Cottingham was heavy-handed in his restoration, the researches of T. G. F. Patterson and Janet Myles in the late twentieth century have shown the restoration to have been notably antiquarian for its time. The tracery of the nave windows in particular are careful restorations as is the copy of the font. The capital decoration of the two westernmost pillars of the nave (either side of the West Door internal porch) are mediaeval as are the bulk of the external gargoyle carvings (some resited) of the parapet of the Eastern Arm. Cottingham's intention of retaining the richly cusped West Door with flanking canopied niches was over-ruled. Subsequent restorations have more radically altered the internal proportions of the mediaeval building, proportions which Cottingham had retained. Many other Celtic and mediaeval carvings are to be seen within the cathedral which is also rich in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century sculpture. There are works by Francis Leggatt Chantrey, Louis-François Roubiliac, John Michael Rysbrack, Carlo Marochetti and others. The Choral Foundation, dating from the Culdees, and refounded as the Royal College of King Charles of Vicars Choral and Organist in the cathedral of Armagh, continues to the present. There are generally a dozen Gentlemen of the Lay Vicars Choral and sixteen boy choristers. The Maundy Money was distributed at the cathedral in 2008: a plaque in the south aisle commemorates this event. Notable burials Brian Boru (c.942–1014), High King of Ireland Saint Ethnea, baptised by St Patrick, died around 433 A.D.; her Feast Day is 11 January Marcus Gervais Beresford (1801–85), Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (appointed 1862). Cousin of Lord John Beresford Charles Frederick D'Arcy (1859–1938), Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland Lord John Beresford John Baptist Crozier and his wife Alice Isabella Organists 1634 Richard Galway 1661 John Hawkshaw 1695 Robert Hodge 1711 William Toole 1722 Samuel Bettridge 1752 John Woffington 1759 Robert Barnes 1776 Langrishe Doyle 1782 Richard Langdon 1794 John Clarke Whitfield 1797 John Jones 1816 Frederick Horncastle 1823 Robert Turle 1872