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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]
Maryborough is the former name of the town of Portlaoise, established in 1548 and named after Queen Mary I; it was given its current name in 1929. [citation needed]
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 ...
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 .
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.
[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]
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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).