School: Moyvoughley (roll number 7249)
- Location:
- Maigh Bhachla, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: C. Ní Fhlannagáin
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- (continued from previous page)Under the ground about twenty perch long and the letters I M U R written on it. My grandmother told me that Masons lived there about two centuries ago, and the masons are still to be seen there working at night between eleven and twelve o'clock.
St Patrick visited Moyvoughley some centuries ago and he knelt on a stone and left the track of his knee on it. Near it, there is a well which is called St. Patrick's well.
Moyvoughley got its name from St. Patrick's Crozier.
- There lived in a house a girl named Betty and her mother.
One day she got two pails of milk from the cows.
Betty said to her mother "I will take one of those pails of milk to town and sell it, and with the money I will buy a ribbon for my hair and overall"
"All right my child" the mother said. So off with Betty to town and the(continues on next page)
