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School: Moate or Moyvoughley (?)

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0745, Page 105

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  1. The Local Roads

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    As Moate is situated on the main road from Dublin to Galway it is surrounded by roads and byways. I do not know many of them but here are the ones I do Know:
    The Ballingarby road leads from Moate to Mount Temple, about eights years ago there was a school house convemient to a stile knows as the "piper stile", on this road. The Wind Mill road runs from athlone to the lake road. This got its name from a windmill which was on a hill near by, hundreds of years ago. The ridge road which leads from the shurock to Ballinderry is a very narrow high road with bog land. The road from athlone to moate was formerly knows as the main coach road from Dublin to Galway. There is a branch road leading off Athlone road know as bogga passing the ruins of the bogga chapel. There are several old people living still
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    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. public infrastructure
          1. roads (~2,778)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Vera Robins
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballynagarbry, Co. Westmeath