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School: Portlaoighse (Convent) (roll number 13386)

Location:
Port Laoise, Co. Laois
Teacher:
Sr Treasa
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    Portlaoighise is quite a prosperous town now compared with olden days when people had a lot of hardship when they had to work for fourpence a day.
    Take for instance Church avenue in years gone by there were a lot of small houses. There was one house owned by a lady named Sally Pink. An old lady by the name of Miss McAuliffe kept a day school at which thirty pupils attended.
    In those days people used to walk to the Heath Chapel to the Quarant are where Doctor Murphy gave sermons.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eileen Dalton
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Port Laoise, Co. Laois
    Informant
    Mr Egan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Port Laoise, Co. Laois