TN-SAHT-0007

Record Date: 
14 August 2013
Graveyard: 
Church of the Sacred Heart
Exact wording of epitaph: 

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SUB  HOC  MARMORE  DEPOSITAE  RELIQIUAE

REVERENDI  PATRITII  FANT

QUI  NOBILI  FAMILIA  DE  DUNBOYNE

ORTUS  CLARIOR  TAMEN  FUIT  VIRTUTE  ET

FIDE  PER  FRIGINTA  TRES  ANNOS  GREGEM

GUBERNAVIT  ET  SUAE  AETATIS  ANNO

OCTOGESIMO  DIE  VERO

13 MAII OBIIT  A.D.1847.

LUX  PERPETUA  LUCEAT  EI. AMEN.

Memorial Type: 
Grave slab
Grave location
County: 
Tipperary
Latitude: 
52.796654722222
Longitude: 
-7.8271630555556
Additional details
Stonecutter/monumental sculptor: 
n/a
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Title: 
Reverend
Name: 
Patrick
Surname: 
Fant
Date of death - day: 
13
Date of death - month: 
May
Date of death - year: 
1847
Notes: 

Father Patrick Fant

Father Fant was a native of Galbally or Knocklong, born c. 1767. He was a relative of Archbishop James Butler of the Dunboyne branch of the Butler family. He was educated in Kilkenny and was ordained c. 1799. Fr. Fant was C.C. in Clonoulty Rossmore and P.P. in Kilbehenny Anglesboro and Bansha Kilmoyler. He was appointed P.P. to Templemore Killea in March1815 and was also given charge of Clonmore, which was annexed from Moyne Templetuohy in October 1815. He built the first parish church in the town of Templemore in 1815. This church was without a belfry due to the Penal Laws so the parish clerk rang a bell through the town to call the congregation to mass. The present Sacred Heart Church in Templemore replaced Fr. Fant’s church in 1883. The building then became a national school, St. Colmcille’s and is now part of Our Lady’s Secondary School. Father Fant laid the foundation stone for St. James’s Church Killea and St. Anne’s Church, Clonmore in 1832. He died of fever in 1847 and was buried within the church he built. His remains were exhumed in October 1970 along with those of Fr. Denis Meagher of Borrisbeg and Fr. Richard Mackey of College Hill and re-interred in the grounds of the Sacred Heart Church.