School: Louth (C.) (roll number 3252)
- Location:
- Louth, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Chasaide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0665, Page 306
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- (continued from previous page)Armagh he left his leper colony in Louth in charge of Saint Mochta.
- Saint Mochta is the Patron Saint of Louth. He came to Louth with Saint Patrick when Saint Patrick was on his mission. Saint Patrick had a chapel and an hospital for lepers in and Patrick about a half a mile from where Saint Mochta built a monastery. In the Monastery field there is a wee house and it is called Saint Mochtas House. There is a stone roof on it and there are two rooms in it, there is one room upstairs and one room downstairs. There is a stone stairs in it. The floor of the upper room is a stone floor. There is a board inside the wee house and there is an inscription on it in Irish and in English and this is it.
Tig Mocta Naomra(continues on next page) - Collector
- Cecilia Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Louth, Co. Louth
