School: Machaire Áirne
- Location:
- Magherarny, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Mac Aodhgáin
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- Templetate Monastery.
In the Sixth Century when St. Tierney was Abbot of Clones Monastery, there was a branch monastery in Templetate, convenient to Magheramey school. Beside the monastery was a graveyard which was used as a burial ground up to a little over a hundred years ago.
Mr Fiddes, owner of the farm, caused the graveyard to be dug over and levelled. A number of bones was gathered and buried in the new graveyard at Magheramey Church.
The last person to be buried in the Templetate graveyard was a man named Brady: and the first to be buried in Magheramey graveyard was also a man named Brady. His grave is in the south-east corner of the graveyard.
This story is told by the old people in this locality On one occasion the Monks(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Joseph Andrews
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Magherarny, Co. Monaghan
