The Old Prior's Tomb, Templemore
In the corner of the Old Church in Templemore is this faded graveslab. I've been to the graveyard within the town park a few times before and took no notice of it. However I recently read William Hayes's paper on it in Tipperary Historical Journal. The graveslab dates to 1632 (making it the oldest gravestone with a date in the graveyard) and around the sides of the slab is the following in "black letter" / "gothic letter"; "JACET RD : PATER D : EDMUNDUS DULLANY RECTOR BEATA MARIA DE TAMPLEMORE ET PRIOR COMMENDATORIUS INSULAE .... FIERI FECIT AO 1632: CUIOS ATA PRORENE= “xs [Here] lies Rev Father D Edmund Dullany, Rector of St Mary's of Templemore, and Prior in Commendam of the Island . . . who had (me) made in the year 1632: on whose soul may [the Lord] have mercy" - (TIPPERARY HISTORICAL JOURNAL 1993, 186) The paper suggests that he may have been the Prior of Monaincha outside Roscrea. There are two other Dullany tombs in Loughmo...