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1. Taghmon (continued)

   

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   there was a Linen factory.
   There were three cemeteries in Taghmon. One was called St. Mary’s. It was said that a convent stood there before the coming of the English. The other cemetery was called St. Munn’s Cemetery, where the old monastry of St. Munn stood. The other cemetery was the Parish cemetery.
   Where the Protestant church now stands, that was the Parish Chapel of Taghmon. There is a large stone cross just as you enter the churchyard, and it said that St. Munn himself is buried there.
   The Protestant church at one time belonged to the Catholics. There is a priest buried in this church. Fr. Hone who was parish priest of Taghmon and died about the year 1767.
   Old Taghmon was situated around where the ruins of the old monastry stand, where the four or five thatched houses are now standing

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   • Mick Kelly