School: Ratoath (roll number 885)
- Location:
- Ratoath, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Seán S. Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0688, Page 019
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“In the vicinity of Ratoath there is an ancient place called Moate...”
Name = Kathleen Sherry
Age = 13 years
Address = Ratoath, Co Meath In the vicinity of Ratoath there is an ancient place called Moate, and at the back of it a river flows near which the Danes fought many a battle.
There was an old Danish Queen lived there, she died in a very short time and was buried in the Moate.
Ratoath got its name by this old lady named Tógh. At the back of the Moate there is a metal slab and it is said that if anybody move the slab they would die in a very short time.
- Collector
- Kathleen Sherry
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Ratoath, Co. Meath