School: Moate or Moyvoughley (?)
- Location:
- Moate, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0745, Page 159
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- There was a battle in athlone many ages ago. A man was coming along the road after the battle. He saw a wounded man by the roadside, He said to him "Thou art alone". And from that day to this the town is called Athlone.
- Collector
- Maureen Farrell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Moate, Co. Westmeath
- Long ago there lived in Lurgan a family by the name of Conway.
Mrs Conway was an old woman and like all old women she had great belief in the power of the priests. It happened that one of their cows was very sick. They sent for one of the Carmelite priests to cure the cow.(continues on next page)
