DEATH OF A POPULAR PRIEST.

New Zealand Tablet, 9 January 1913, Page 39

DEATH OF A POPULAR PRIEST.

In Tipperary there is general regret at the death of Very Rev. Canon Meagher, P.P., Templemore, which took place on November 16 after a long illness. Deceased had attained the patriarchal age of 85 years, 59 of which were spent in the sacred ministry. He was educated in the great ecclesiastical college of Maynooth, and having read a distinguished course, was appointed a curate in his native diocese. In the early seventies the late Most Rev. Dr. Leahy, then Archbishop of Cashel, sent him to America to collect funds for the building of Thurles Cathedral, at the time in course of erection. In his mission to the Irish exiles he was most successful. After a few years as pastor of Draugan, he was appointed to Templemore, where, he had labored zealously since 1882. Se was an active supporter of every movement calculated to serve his native land and to upraise the condition of her people.