Editing Moate (section)

==Culture and heritage==
[[File:Meet Moate's Main Street - from the west! (26920278699).jpg|thumb|Main Street, Moate c1910s]]
The local [[Gaelic football]] club is the Moate All Whites. The club's name and playing kit colours are based on the white religious habits worn by the Carmelite White Friars, a long established Moate institution.{{citation needed|date=March 2021}}

Tuar Ard Arts Centre is a community-lead project which opened in October 2000. The centre has tiered seating in an auditorium that seats 173 people.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Facilities - Conference Room Booking - Gallery - Theatre - Meeting Rooms|url=https://tuarard.ie/art-centre-facilities/|access-date=2021-03-13|website=Tuar Ard Arts Centre|language=en-US|archive-date=26 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126182845/https://tuarard.ie/art-centre-facilities/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The former gaol, part of the old courthouse, contains a small museum housing artefacts found in the area dating from the Stone Age through to the modern era. The main building of the old courthouse has been renovated into a public library.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-06-17|title=New Westmeath library features Colm Murray archive|url=https://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0617/796338-moate-court-house-restoration-colm-murray/|language=en|journal=|access-date=13 March 2021|archive-date=28 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170528030942/https://www.rte.ie/news/2016/0617/796338-moate-court-house-restoration-colm-murray/|url-status=live | website = rte.ie }}</ref>

[[File:Moate - Church of the Immaculate Conception - 20180916140818.jpg|thumb|upright|Church of the Immaculate Conception, Moate]]
A 17th-century ruined Quaker Meetinghouse stands in the centre of the town, the Church of St. Patrick serves as the [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] parish church and the Church of St. Mary is the local [[Church of Ireland]] church. A second Catholic church, the Church of the Immaculate Conception, stands to the north of the town.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WM&regno=15317050|title=Cartronkeel, Moate, County Westmeath|publisher=[[National Inventory of Architectural Heritage]]|website=buildingsofireland.ie|access-date=3 December 2018|archive-date=4 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181204005928/http://www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&county=WM&regno=15317050|url-status=live}}</ref>