Moate is mostly in Kilcleagh parish, in southern county Westmeath. Yours, Dora Smith Austin, TX tiggernut24@yahoo.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <petescherm@aol.com> To: <rstieglitz@msn.com>; <genire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2009 3:56 AM Subject: Re: Moat, Killeagh, County Meath > > > Rob enquires: > > === I found this Townland in Griffith's Valuation but not on today's > maps. Has the name changed? Incorporated in another Townland? Or is it > there > and I just have not located it? === > > The last question is the one [gr]. The townland occurs at a location > which > unfortunately spreads across the common meeting-point of 4 Discovery maps > (although the name is mentioned on only 2 of them). The two maps that > mention Moat are Disc. map 41, which shows Moat in the very upper right > corner, > and map 42 which shows Moat in the upper left corner. On map 34, Moat is > unnamed, but a piece of it is in the lower right corner, just to the east > of the > townland of Ballynacree and across the minor road shown there. Map 35 has > an even smaller piece of Moat townland....just a few nondescript acres > (although there may be a house or two on another minor road which connects > Moat > with Tully townland, within Moat itself). > > St. Bridgid's RC church and graveyard is in the townland (as of 1987). > The > Disc. map 41 also shows a current (as of 1995) church at/near the site of > a > C of I church which was built in 1800 and destroyed before 1964. There is > still a large graveyard there (Archaeological Inventory of County Meath, > Office of Public Works, 1987). I don't know if this "current" church is > RC or > C of I. > > > Pete > .................................................... > Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western > Massachusetts > </HTML> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GENIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message