School: Moyvoughley (roll number 7249)
- Location:
- Moyvoughly, Co. Westmeath
- 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.
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