School: Leamhach (Leigh)
- Location:
- Leigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máighread Ní Mhuireagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0553, Page 223
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- In St. Mary's Church yard, Thurlas, to the left as you approach the Protestant Church, stands a little stone some three feet from the clay, with a six inch iron cross on its apex, now rusting to decay. The only evidence to give you the identity of the sleeper is the inscription "In this grave are deposited the remains of Maurice Richard Leyne who died Aug 29th 1854"
Lane who was grandson of Dan O'Connell was born in Tralee and was educated in Carlow College where he had a class mate Richard D'alton Williams and James Fintan Lawlor.
In early manhood he became tired and weary of the ceaseless torrents of ineffective talk of the Liberators and sided against his relative by joining the Young Ireland Movement. For Leyne this was a heroic sacrifice. He was all through the '48 trouble round the hills of Ballingarry. Over his grave in St. Mary's 1875 was according to HM Sullivan a simple slab on which some kindly hand had(continues on next page)
