School: Moate (2) (roll number 10884)
- Location:
- Moate, Co. Westmeath
- Teachers: S. Ó Ruairc L. Mac Coiligh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0745, Page 232
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- (continued from previous page)The streets of Moate are remarkably wide - "as wide as the streets of Moate" is come to be a proverb here and in the neighbourhood - however this was not always so. According to an old tradition (per Paddy Toole, Ballinamuddle, Moate) the street or high road led originally from(continues on next page)
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“The Four Coldest Things in the World....”
1 "A man's ears, a woman's toes, a cat's tail, and a dog's nose."
2 It is supposed that when a woman is buried the hair on her head grows so long that is goes down and around her feet.
3 There is supposed to be no worms ever seen in a graveyard. (no title)
“There is a man in Ballymahon who is said to have once cut a lone bush.”
4 There is a man in Ballymahon who is said to have once cut a lone bush. When he got up the next morning he had no hair on his head.
The bush was said to belong to the fairies. - Collector
- Frances Tiernan
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