School: Abbeyleix Convent (roll number 13613)
- Location:
- Abbeyleix, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Mother Paul
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- (continued from previous page)good tillage district. There is a bog there also. The people are well supplied with firing.
- The townland of Ballypickas Lower or Bernard's grove is situated about three miles from Abbeyleix. It derives it's name from a Gentleman named Pickett who lived at Bernards grove where Gorman's now reside. Ballypickas was formely a village or a small town and the ruins of old houses now known as The Street" still remain to be seen. Many of those families emigrated to America after the famine(continues on next page)