Moate

Half of them, I am sure, I have forgotten, but note for futurity; specially a fair-haired heiress now living, shut up in an old place called the Moate, old as King John's time.

The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 Maria Edgeworth 1808

Even when Jackson began to venture out and there were rumoured sightings of him in the nearby villages of Moate or Kilbeggan, the Dunnings would deny all knowledge.

Michael Jackson's Irish hideaway 2010

Just outside Moate, a cocker spaniel pup ran out in front of the car.

One of these days… 2004

The said building is commonly knowne by the name of the Moate.

The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923

One night, he says, he sang a song at Moate, and a friend of his heard the words in Athenry.

Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography 1913

Captain Moate, servant of Ralegh's friend, Sir John Watts, had come the last spring 'from St. Thome, where the Spaniards inhabit.'

Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography 1879

Thome which Captain Moate found inhabited by the Spaniards was the new town.

Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography 1879

That is unlikely, both because Moate would then have identified the actual spot, and on account of Ralegh's description to the King, after his return, of the town as 'new set up within three miles of the

Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography 1879

Moate to listen to her as she sang, or hear her sketch off some trait of that Roman society in which British pretension and eccentricity often figured so amusingly.

Lord Kilgobbin Charles James Lever 1839

Is Mr. Casey down there satisfied to keep the post-office in Moate when he knows he could be the first secretary in Dublin, at the head office, with two thousand a year?

Lord Kilgobbin Charles James Lever 1839