These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
An Móta· Irish · main form · validated name
Moate· English · main form
Place & story
Castle and meeting house
Moate Castle began as a sixteenth-century tower house and was enlarged in the eighteenth century. A Quaker family bought it in the mid-seventeenth century and helped establish the market town. Their enterprises included tanning, linen manufacture, brewing, distilling and coachbuilding. A meeting house and walled cemetery developed in the castle grounds in the 1680s and remained in use until 1931. The broad Main Street preserves the scale of the trading settlement that grew around these activities.[2]
An industrial turning point
By 1837, when Lewis described Moate, its manufacturing fortunes had changed. Cotton and linen production, formerly extensive, employed only about a hundred people, and several large breweries and distilleries had ceased operating. Thursday markets and four annual fairs still sustained the town's commercial life. Lewis counted 330 houses, most slated but eighty-six still thatched, and identified Moate Castle as Cuthbert J. Clibborn's residence. His account catches an established market town after the contraction of its larger industries.[3]
Music, artefacts and parkland
Dún na Sí combines a heritage centre with twenty-seven acres of parkland, including a wetland area. Its Comhaltas centre brings together museum artefacts and a céilí house for music and dance. Tuar Ard's theatre and gallery offer another setting for cultural life in the town centre. Together these places give traditional music, local collections and contemporary performance distinct homes in Moate.[4]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
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Moate — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
These are the historical areas published in the 2006 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Moate, Westmeath — Census town, CSO 2006 report — census population
These are the historical areas published in the 1996 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Moate, Westmeath — Census town, CSO 1996 report — census population
Figures cover the historical town area printed in the 1986 report. Boundaries may have changed between censuses. Legal town, environs and suburb totals remain separate and differ from modern settlement boundaries.
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Moate, Westmeath — Census town, CSO 1986 report — census population
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Moate, Westmeath
Published census settlement populations
2,763people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
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