There are four graveyards in this parish, one at Tashinny another at Togshined and one at Abbeyshrule and one at Abbeyderg. The graveyard at Abbeyshrule is oval shaped on a sandy hill overlooking the Inny river. There are some beautiful Celtic crosses and a very old tomb-stone one hundred and seventy years old over a Bishop Brady's grave. He lived at Knocka. The old house is now in ruins and the property is owned by James Kenny of Antly. There is a well or font on the tomb-stone over the grave. To drop a pin into it and to say some prayers is known to have cured diseases It is said there is a cave under the graveyard where the monks hid their treasures and a tunnel leads from it the
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