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Portlaoise College [27] is situated just minutes from the heart of Portlaoise. Portlaoise College provides full-time education for over 300 students in Junior and Leaving Certificate Cycle and has the worst record in Laois of pupils going on to third level, with 46% of students continuing education after obtaining their leaving certificate. [28]
Portlaoise GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) affiliated hurling, Gaelic football and camogie club based in Portlaoise, the county town of Laois in Ireland. Founded in 1887, the club has won several Laois Senior Football , Laois Senior Hurling and Laois Ladies' Senior Football Club Championships .
Portlaoise (previously Maryborough) is the main town of the county. Loígis was the subject of two organised plantations or colonisations by the Kingdom of England in 1556 and 1607. During the first plantation, Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex attempted to dispossess the ruling O'Moore clan, who had been engaging in costly raids on The Pale ...
[1] [2] It included the judicial county of Queen's County except for the part in the town of Carlow, which became part of the administrative county of County Carlow. [3] Meetings were originally held in Portlaoise Courthouse. After the courthouse became inadequate, a purpose-built facility, known as County Hall was built in May 1982. [4] [5] [6]
The River Triogue (Irish: An Trióg) is a river that flows through the county of Laois in Ireland.It is a tributary of the River Barrow.. It has its source in the Cullenagh Hills, south of Portlaoise. [1]
Originally meetings of Laois County Council were held in Portlaoise Courthouse. [1] After the courthouse became inadequate, a purpose-built facility was built in May 1982. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] An extension, linked to the existing County Hall building by a single storey glazed corridor, was completed in 2007.
The village is served by Bus Éireann Expressway route 12 linking it to Dublin, Dublin Airport, Portlaoise, and Limerick. Mountrath and Castletown railway station opened on 1 September 1848, closed for goods traffic on 3 November 1975 and finally closed altogether on 6 September 1976. [ 4 ]
[3] [4] [5] In order to accommodate the large caseload of the court, which had become the second busiest in Ireland, [6] in May 2019, the county council announced plans to build a new courthouse outside the town. [7] A site for the new building was secured in November 2019. [8]