The First Great Train Robbery
The disused Moate railway station was built by the Midland Great Western Railway to connect Dublin and Galway and opened on 1 August 1851. It closed for goods traffic on 2 December 1974, and closed for passenger traffic on 27 January 1987. Parts of the film "The First Great Train Robbery" (1979) were filmed on the local railway. The train station depicted as "Ashford" is actually Moate Station.