At a local Petty Sessions Court in Templemore on 15 May 1865, an old woman was sentenced to one month imprisonment for stealing a key from the door of one Capt. Thomas Borrow of the 11th Battn This Capt Borrow was the father of the famous novelist George Borrow who accompanied his father when his Battn. moved to Templemore. He wrote many novels (such as Lavengro etc.), and mentions the town in some of his books, describing his wandering on horseback around the locality and up to the ‘Devil's Bit’ mountain.