Talk:Charles Vallancey

More needed on what his theories were
The page says people have thought his theories were rubbish, but nothing about what they were. This needs to be added - e.g. apparently he thought the Irish descended from the Phoenicians, and similarities between Irish round towers and Indian Hindu temples significant. Dsp13 (talk) 23:28, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Another of his ideas was that Confucius was actually Cenn Fáelad. I do not know how much such a detail speaks about the rest of his system. So far leaving it here. The source: Galambos, Imre. "The story of the Chinese seals found in Ireland", p.475.--Shanghainese.ua (talk) 17:40, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Biography
An article at JSTOR casts doubt on some of the early details of his life:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/25509044?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Eroica (talk) 12:10, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

This edit: changed his year of birth to 1831 stating unnamed church records as the sources. While apparently a year of birth of 1721 is questioned, still for the dates in 1731 we would need some source that conforms with Verifiability. --Proofreader (talk) 23:03, 6 August 2023 (UTC)