The body of an unknown pikeman, which has been buried in a Co Meath farm for 205 years, is to be exhumed and reinterred at a special monument 80 miles away as part of the official Robert Emmet bicentenary celebrations.
Organisers are planning to remove the remains of the "Fear Pice Gan Ainm" from their resting place near Navan and, initially, move them to Dublin's Mansion House where they will "lie in State".
The following day the remains are planned to be brought through various towns in Wicklow and Wexford on a gun carriage. They will then be placed in Tulach An tSolais, the Monument Of Light, which was erected in Oulart, Co Wexford, to mark the 200th anniversary of the 1798 Rising, in 1998.
Organisers are finalising their plans, which will require official permission from Meath County Council to exhume the body.
The organisers have also been in contact with the Department of the Taoiseach and the Office of Public Works for help in the ceremony. However the level of State involvement in the project is unclear at this stage.
The pikeman is believed to have died following an engagement at Knightstown near Navan in the summer of 1798.
Some 800 rebels were killed in the battle, after croppie boys from Wexford, Wicklow and Kildare joined the Meath croppies in an unsuccessful attempt to meet up with their Ulster counterparts.
The unknown pikeman is believed to have been injured in the battle, and then made his way to a farmyard outside Navan, where he died in a shed. The Lightholder family, who owned the farm, found him and buried him nearby.
The story and location of the grave was passed on to the present generation of the family, who still live on the farm.
His grave has been maintained at the farmyard for the past 200 years but is now in possible danger of being disturbed by development and proposed motorway routes in the area.
Comoradh na Midhe, a group set up to commemorate 1798 in Meath, is involved with the project along with the Wexford 1798 committee and the Robert Emmet bicentenary committee.
The idea was first proposed in 1998 but difficulties at the time prevented it from taking place then.