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.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Eileen Dalton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Port Laoise, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Mr Egan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Port Laoise, Co. Laois