THE CONNAUGHT JOURNAL GALWAY, MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1824 THE REV. THOMAS TIERNEY, O.S.A. This reverend and inestimable character terminated his career of virtue on the morning of Friday last, at Cregg, the seat of Francis Blake, Esq. In recording the loss of such an individual, we discharge a reluctant duty, and feel obliged to depart from the line of our ordinary obituaries to lament the unexpected death of an Ecclesiastic, the element of whose character were of so pure and perfect a composition, that we are at a loss which to admire in him most, his meekness and urbanity as a Gentleman - his talents and information as a Man, or his peculiarly zealous and conflicting conduct as a Minister of peace. It seemed the very bent and study of his life to administer the truths and the consolations of his Religion, through the most gentle and agreeable channel - and while his station called upon him to take back from the lap of sin the unerring child of mortality, he never forgot to convey the strictures of virtue through the impressive medium of a sweet and eloquent advice. Mr. Tierney at an early period became a member of the Augustinian Order, and has ever since been an inhabitant of this place, if, indeed, we except the many interruptions his residence received from the hospitality and friendship of the Gentry of the County of Galway, to whom his liberal and engaging manners endeared him. His remains were accompanied to the grave by an immense assemblage, composed of all classes without any religious distinction and the Roman Catholics of the 1st Royal Veteran Battalion marched in the procession under the command of Major Faucet. Cathy Joynt Labath Ireland Old News http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/