Shanrahan Cemetry near Clogheen is the burial place of Fr.Nicholas Sheehy 1734—1766. Having been found guilty of being an accessory to a murder, on trumped up charges by a powerful local landlord and a local rector, he was hung on a scaffold opposite the church of St.Peters & Paul’s in Clonmel. His head was severed and set on a spike over Clonmel Jail as a warning against agrarian violence. For 20 years it remained on this spike, until it was returned to his sister Catherine who had it buried with the rest of his body.