Old Town Walls

As part of our local history plan, Senior Infants walked down to see the old Cashel wall around the cathedral graveyard. A length of the town wall is acting as a boundary wall around the Cathedral graveyard and set into niches in the town wall are four tomb effigies. They are dated to c.1320 and reputedly came from the Hackett chapel of the Franciscan abbey. Sir William Hackett founded the friary in c.1265, it was originally known as Hacketts Abbey. The coffin lid effigies may represent Sir William, his wife and two daughters.