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Portlaoise Town Council was abolished in 2014 in accordance with the Local Government Reform Act 2014. [7] Portlaoise Town Hall on Market Square, which was designed in the French Renaissance-style, was badly damaged in a fire in March 1945 and subsequently demolished. [8] Portlaoise is twinned with Coulounieix-Chamiers, Dordogne, New Aquitaine ...
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 ...
The hospital, which was designed by William Murphy, opened as the Maryborough Asylum in 1833. [1] It was extended in 1865 and again in 1898. [1] It became Portlaoise Mental Hospital in the 1920s and went on to become St. Fintan's Hospital in the 1950s. [1]
Maryborough East or East Maryborough [1] (Irish: Port Laoise Thoir [2]) is a barony in County Laois (formerly called Queen's County or County Leix), Ireland. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Etymology
Jun. 7—The I-20 Wildlife Preserve will enlarge its outdoor classroom this summer when it welcomes eight Midland high school students into the 2024 Conservation Job Corps program. Accepted into ...
Portlaoise (formerly Maryborough) railway station opened on 26 June 1847. [2] It was designed by Sancton Wood. [3] In March 2008, Irish Rail opened a new Traincare depot south-west of Portlaoise town centre (officially opened on 25 July 2008).
A forest preserve is a type of nature reserve. Forest Preserve may also refer to: Forest Preserve (New York), land owned by the state within the Adirondack and Catskill parks; Forest Preserve District of Cook County, a governmental commission in Illinois; Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, a governmental agency headquartered in Wheaton ...
Flush with money after voters authorized a fresh property tax hike, Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle pitched next year’s Forest Preserves budget Tuesday as the start of “a new era ...