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class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">53°09′36″N</span> <span class="longitude">7°11′24″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">53.160°N 7.190°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">53.160; -7.190</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">Ireland</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Ireland" title="Provinces of Ireland">Province</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Leinster</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Counties_of_Ireland" title="Counties of Ireland">County</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/County_Laois" title="County Laois">County Laois</a> & <a href="/wiki/County_Offaly" title="County Offaly">County Offaly</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Elevation<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">66 m (217 ft)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(<a href="/wiki/2022_census_of_Ireland" title="2022 census of Ireland">2022</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-cso2022_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cso2022-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • <a href="/wiki/Urban_area" title="Urban area">Urban</a><div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th><td class="infobox-data">9,288</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%C2%B10" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC±0">UTC±0</a> (<a href="/wiki/Western_European_Time" title="Western European Time">WET</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"> • Summer (<a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%2B1" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC+1">UTC+1</a> (<a href="/wiki/Irish_Standard_Time" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish Standard Time">IST</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Eircode" class="mw-redirect" title="Eircode">Eircode</a> routing key</th><td class="infobox-data adr"><div class="postal-code">R32</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland" title="Telephone numbers in the Republic of Ireland">Telephone area code</a></th><td class="infobox-data">+353(0)57</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Irish Grid Reference</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion" style="white-space: nowrap"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Portarlington,_County_Laois&params=53.160540_N_7.193436_W_region:IE_scale:25000">N540125</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_Rail_Ireland_Viceregal_Commission_1906.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Map_Rail_Ireland_Viceregal_Commission_1906.jpg/220px-Map_Rail_Ireland_Viceregal_Commission_1906.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="299" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Map_Rail_Ireland_Viceregal_Commission_1906.jpg/330px-Map_Rail_Ireland_Viceregal_Commission_1906.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Map_Rail_Ireland_Viceregal_Commission_1906.jpg/440px-Map_Rail_Ireland_Viceregal_Commission_1906.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3063" data-file-height="4167" /></a><figcaption>Island of Irish Rail 1906</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Portarlington</b>, historically called <b>Cooletoodera</b><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (from <a href="/wiki/Irish_language" title="Irish language">Irish</a>: <i lang="ga">Cúil an tSúdaire</i>, meaning 'nook of the tanner'), is a town on the border of <a href="/wiki/County_Laois" title="County Laois">County Laois</a> and <a href="/wiki/County_Offaly" title="County Offaly">County Offaly</a>, Ireland. The <a href="/wiki/River_Barrow" title="River Barrow">River Barrow</a> forms the border. Portarlington is around 70 kilometres (43 mi) west of <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a>. The town was recorded in the <a href="/wiki/2022_census_of_Ireland" title="2022 census of Ireland">2022 census</a> as having a population of 9,288.<sup id="cite_ref-cso2022_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cso2022-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portarlington,_County_Laois&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Near_Portarlington,_County_Laois_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1815831.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Near_Portarlington%2C_County_Laois_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1815831.jpg/270px-Near_Portarlington%2C_County_Laois_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1815831.jpg" decoding="async" width="270" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Near_Portarlington%2C_County_Laois_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1815831.jpg/405px-Near_Portarlington%2C_County_Laois_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1815831.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Near_Portarlington%2C_County_Laois_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1815831.jpg/540px-Near_Portarlington%2C_County_Laois_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1815831.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3888" data-file-height="2094" /></a><figcaption>Blackhall Bridge</figcaption></figure> <p>Portarlington was founded in 1666, by <a href="/wiki/Henry_Bennet,_1st_Earl_of_Arlington" title="Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington">Sir Henry Bennet</a>, who had been <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_the_Southern_Department" title="Secretary of State for the Southern Department">Southern Secretary</a> to <a href="/wiki/Charles_II_of_England" title="Charles II of England">Charles II</a> and to whom that King, on his <a href="/wiki/English_Restoration" class="mw-redirect" title="English Restoration">restoration</a>, had made a grant of the extensive estates of <a href="/wiki/Dempsey" title="Dempsey">Ó Díomasaigh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Viscount_Clanmalier" title="Viscount Clanmalier">Viscount Clanmalier</a>, <a href="/wiki/Act_for_the_Settlement_of_Ireland_1652" title="Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652">confiscated</a> after the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Rebellion_of_1641" title="Irish Rebellion of 1641">Irish Rebellion of 1641</a>. After some difficulties, the grant passed to Sir Henry Bennet of all the Ó Díomasaigh lands in the King's and Queen's Counties, and on 14 April 1664 he was created <a href="/wiki/Baron_Arlington" title="Baron Arlington">Baron Arlington</a> of <a href="/wiki/Harlington,_London" title="Harlington, London">Harlington</a> in the County of Middlesex. So great was the anxiety of these new settlers to efface all ancient recollections in Ireland, that the Parliament of Orrery and <a href="/wiki/James_Butler,_1st_Duke_of_Ormond" title="James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond">Ormond</a> enacted that the governor and council should be able to give new English names instead of the Irish names of places; and that after a time such new names should be the only ones known or allowed in the country. In accordance with this enactment the borough created in Cooletoodera (<span title="Irish-language text"><i lang="ga">Cúil an tSúdaire</i></span>), received the name of Port-Arlington, or Arlington's Fort.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236656977">.mw-parser-output .abbr-header{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .caption-purple{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-bottom:none;background-color:lavender}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .caption-purple{background:inherit!important}}.mw-parser-output .table-pale{border:1px #a2a9b1 solid;border-top:none;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);padding:5px}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .table-pale{border-top:1px #a2a9b1 solid!important}.mw-parser-output .caption-purple{border:none}}</style><table class="table-pale collapsible collapsed" style="width:15em;border-top-width:0;border-spacing: 0;float:right;clear:right;margin:0.5em 0 1em 0.5em;"><caption class="caption-purple" style="padding:0.25em;font-weight:bold">Historical population</caption><tbody><tr style="font-size:95%"><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;width:3em">Year</th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px 2px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Population" class="abbr-header">Pop.</abbr></th><th style="border-bottom:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);padding:1px;text-align:right"><abbr title="Percent change" class="abbr-header">±%</abbr></th></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1821</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">2,877</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">—    </td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1831</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">3,091</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+7.4%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1841</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">3,106</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+0.5%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1851</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">2,730</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−12.1%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">1861</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">2,581</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">−5.5%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1871</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">2,424</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−6.1%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1881</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">2,357</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−2.8%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1891</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">2,021</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−14.3%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1901</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">1,943</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−3.9%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">1911</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">2,012</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">+3.6%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1926</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">1,954</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−2.9%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1936</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">1,851</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−5.3%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1946</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">2,092</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+13.0%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1951</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">2,246</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+7.4%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">1956</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">2,720</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">+21.1%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1961</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">2,846</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+4.6%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1966</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">2,804</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−1.5%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1971</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">3,117</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+11.2%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1981</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">3,386</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+8.6%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">1986</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">3,295</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">−2.7%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1991</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">3,211</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">−2.5%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">1996</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">3,320</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+3.4%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2002</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">4,001</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+20.5%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2006</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">6,004</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+50.1%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">2011</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">7,788</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px;border-bottom:1px solid #bbbbbb">+29.7%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2016</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">8,368</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+7.4%</td></tr><tr><th style="text-align:center;padding:1px">2022</th><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">9,288</td><td style="text-align:right;padding:1px">+11.0%</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1px solid var(--color-base, #000000);font-size:85%;text-align:left"><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-cso2022_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cso2022-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Huguenot_settlement_1694">Huguenot settlement 1694</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portarlington,_County_Laois&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Huguenot settlement 1694"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following the failure of Henry Bennet's English colony, Port Arlington was re-established with the settlement of <a href="/wiki/Huguenot" class="mw-redirect" title="Huguenot">Huguenot</a> refugees following the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Limerick" title="Treaty of Limerick">Treaty of Limerick</a>: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Unique among the French Protestant colonies established or augmented in Ireland following the Treaty of Limerick (1691), the Portarlington settlement was planted on the ashes of an abortive English colony.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Fifteen or more Huguenot families who were driven from France as religious refugees settled on the ashes of Bennet's colony, and the settlement was unique among the Huguenot settlements in Ireland in that the French language survived, being used in church services till the 1820s and continuing to be taught in the town school. </p> <dl><dd><i>... and till within the last twenty years divine service was performed in the French language. In the RC divisions Portarlington is the head of a union or district, called Portarlington, Emo and Killinard ...</i><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Ireland" title="Church of Ireland">Church of Ireland</a> <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Kildare" title="Bishop of Kildare">Bishop of Kildare</a> came to Portarlington to consecrate the new French Church, 1694.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The present-day Church of Ireland church sits on one of the town's main thoroughfares, still named 'French Church Street', with the original French church (1694) situated just off the market square.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The relationship to the French influence with Portarlington is celebrated every July with the Festival Français de Portarlington. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lea_Castle">Lea Castle</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portarlington,_County_Laois&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Lea Castle"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On the outskirts of the parish lies Lea Castle. The remnants of a Norman <a href="/wiki/Castle" title="Castle">castle</a> built in 1260 by <a href="/w/index.php?title=William_de_Vesey&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="William de Vesey (page does not exist)">William de Vesey</a>. It changed hands many times during its history. For example, it was burned by Fionn Ó Díomasaigh's men in 1284, rebuilt by de Vesey and given to the king, burned along with its town by the Scots army in 1315, burned by the O'Moores in 1346, captured by the O'Dempseys in 1422 and then lost to the <a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Ormond_(Ireland)" title="Earl of Ormond (Ireland)">Earl of Ormond</a> in 1452, used by <a href="/wiki/Silken_Thomas_Fitzgerald" class="mw-redirect" title="Silken Thomas Fitzgerald">Silken Thomas Fitzgerald</a> as a refuge in 1535, mortgaged to Sir Maurice Fitzgerald in 1556, and leased to <a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Bath_(landowner)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Bath (landowner) (page does not exist)">Robert Bath</a> in 1618. It was used by the <a href="/wiki/Confederate_Ireland" title="Confederate Ireland">confederates</a> as a mint in the 1640s rebellion until Cromwellians blew up the fortifications by stuffing the stairways with explosives. The castle was never used as a fortification again. </p><p>Treascon Mass Rock lies just outside the town in an area known as Treascon. This mass rock (<i>Carraig an Aifrinn</i> in Irish) is located within a wooded area, and is a large stone used in mid-seventeenth century Ireland as a location for Catholic worship. Isolated locations were sought to hold religious ceremony, as Catholic mass was a matter of difficulty and danger at the time as a result of both Cromwell's campaign against the Irish, and the <a href="/wiki/Penal_Laws_against_Irish_Catholics" class="mw-redirect" title="Penal Laws against Irish Catholics">Penal Laws</a> of 1695, whereby discrimination and violence against Catholics was legal. </p><p>The rebellion of 1798 resulted in several local men from Lea castle being apprehended and subsequently put to death by hanging in the town's market square. A memorial in the shape of a Celtic cross with the rebels' details was commissioned and erected in 1976. The memorial stands close to the perimeter wall of the French church in the market square. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rotten_borough">Rotten borough</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portarlington,_County_Laois&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Rotten borough"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Portarlington_(Parliament_of_Ireland_constituency)" title="Portarlington (Parliament of Ireland constituency)">Portarlington constituency</a> returned two MPs to the <a href="/wiki/Irish_House_of_Commons" title="Irish House of Commons">Irish House of Commons</a> until 1801, after which it was reconstituted as a <a href="/wiki/Portarlington_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Portarlington (UK Parliament constituency)">UK Parliament constituency</a> returning one MP. Two borough minute books have survived in the National Library of Ireland: Ms 90 for 1727–1777 and Ms 5095 for 1777–1841. They reveal the limitation of freemen and increasing control by the Dawson–Damer family, the Earls of Portarlington.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The politics of the <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Ascendancy" title="Protestant Ascendancy">Protestant Ascendancy</a> were responsible for turning Portarlington into a perfectly <a href="/wiki/Rotten_borough" class="mw-redirect" title="Rotten borough">rotten borough</a>. The reason was to preserve the planters' positions politically and economically. This extract shows that a corporation of 15 people was responsible for the re-election of nominees of the Dawson family to parliament, many of whom were non-resident, to represent the town of 2,800 people: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p><i>Prior to the legislative Union between Great Britain and Ireland, this borough sent two Members to the Irish Parliament; since 1800 it has returned one to the Imperial Parliament, and so close has been this corporation, that for 50 years previous to the last general election, the nominee of the Dawson family, commonly a total stranger to the borough, was always returned without a contest. According to the Parliamentary Returns of May 1829 and June 1830, the number of electors, resident and non-resident, was 15; that is, all the members of the corporation.</i><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portarlington,_County_Laois&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:County_Laois_-_The_Spire_-_20180611211926.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/County_Laois_-_The_Spire_-_20180611211926.jpg/170px-County_Laois_-_The_Spire_-_20180611211926.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="241" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/County_Laois_-_The_Spire_-_20180611211926.jpg/255px-County_Laois_-_The_Spire_-_20180611211926.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/County_Laois_-_The_Spire_-_20180611211926.jpg/340px-County_Laois_-_The_Spire_-_20180611211926.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1722" data-file-height="2446" /></a><figcaption>The Spire is a folly on nearby Corrig/Carrick hill</figcaption></figure> <p>Portarlington is split by the River Barrow, with County Offaly on the north bank and County Laois on the south Bank; the town is mostly flat, with some slight street undulations. The town was partially built on the river's flood plain. More recent drainage improvements has resulted in fewer floodings to areas close to the town.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Crossing the river into County Offaly, the land becomes marshy and wet with extensive peat bogs. These peat bogs are broken by some glacial hills, one such hill is called Derryvilla Hill; these hills have been used for gravel and sand production.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>The southern end of the town is dominated visually by another glacial hill, know locally as <i>Corrig</i> (or Carrick) hill.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This hill is topped by a stone structure or spire. This spire was built the latter half of the 19th century. Next to the spire is the town's water supply reservoir. The reservoir uses the gravity afforded by the hill to supply water to the town below.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portarlington,_County_Laois&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>County Laois suffered during the <a href="/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)" title="Great Famine (Ireland)">Great Famine (1845–1847)</a>, and the county's population dropped from over 153,000 in 1841 to just over 73,000 by 1881.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Famine graveyards are known locally.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The population of Portarlington itself doubled between the 2002 and 2016 census (from 4,001 to 8,368 people),<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-csoSAPMAP2016_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-csoSAPMAP2016-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> reaching 9,288 in 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-cso2022_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cso2022-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the <a href="/wiki/2022_census_of_Ireland" title="2022 census of Ireland">2022 census</a>, 79.2% of inhabitants were born in Ireland, with Poland (5%), the UK (4.4%), and elsewhere in the EU (4.8%) representing other places of birth of the population.<sup id="cite_ref-cso2022_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cso2022-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Reflecting the development of new housing in the early 21st century, the same census suggested that a majority of residents (59.81%) were living in private homes built after 2001.<sup id="cite_ref-cso2022_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cso2022-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transport">Transport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portarlington,_County_Laois&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Transport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Portarlington_Station_-_geograph.org.uk_-_334655.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Portarlington_Station_-_geograph.org.uk_-_334655.jpg/220px-Portarlington_Station_-_geograph.org.uk_-_334655.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Portarlington_Station_-_geograph.org.uk_-_334655.jpg/330px-Portarlington_Station_-_geograph.org.uk_-_334655.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Portarlington_Station_-_geograph.org.uk_-_334655.jpg/440px-Portarlington_Station_-_geograph.org.uk_-_334655.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="411" /></a><figcaption>Portarlington Railway station</figcaption></figure> <p>Portarlington is a focal point of the <a href="/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Ireland" title="Rail transport in Ireland">Irish railway network</a>, being situated on the junction for services to the west (<a href="/wiki/Galway" title="Galway">Galway</a> and <a href="/wiki/County_Mayo" title="County Mayo">County Mayo</a>), the south (<a href="/wiki/Cork_(city)" title="Cork (city)">Cork</a>, <a href="/wiki/Limerick" title="Limerick">Limerick</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tralee" title="Tralee">Tralee</a>) and the east (<a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kildare" title="Kildare">Kildare</a>). <a href="/wiki/Portarlington_halt" class="mw-redirect" title="Portarlington halt">Portarlington halt</a> opened on 26 June 1847.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Public transport by road includes, as of January 2017, one intercity bus service which operates direct to <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a>. It is operated by <a href="/wiki/JJ_Kavanagh_and_Sons" title="JJ Kavanagh and Sons">JJ Kavanagh and Sons</a>, and serves <a href="/wiki/University_College_Dublin" title="University College Dublin">UCD</a> once a day up and return.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> There is a local-link town service operated by Slieve Bloom Coaches linking Portarlington with <a href="/wiki/Portlaoise" title="Portlaoise">Portlaoise</a> and also with <a href="/wiki/Tullamore" title="Tullamore">Tullamore</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>An additional private operator, Dublin Coach (known locally as 'the green bus' due its livery), operates an hourly service to Kildare Village Outlet via <a href="/wiki/Monasterevin" title="Monasterevin">Monasterevin</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> A weekday service by JJ Kavanagh and Sons to NUI <a href="/wiki/Maynooth_University" title="Maynooth University">Maynooth University</a> and <a href="/wiki/Institute_of_Technology,_Carlow" title="Institute of Technology, Carlow">Institute of Technology, Carlow</a> operates during the college term.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2017)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portarlington,_County_Laois&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Coláiste Íosagáin is the main secondary school in Portarlington.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The school, which is located on the Offaly side of the border, runs Transition Year, Leaving Cert Applied, and Leaving Cert Vocational programmes. </p><p>There are three <a href="/wiki/National_school_(Ireland)" title="National school (Ireland)">primary schools</a>, all located on the Laois side of the border.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>There is also a third level education college providing courses for post-secondary pupils as well as adult education courses.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_media">In media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portarlington,_County_Laois&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: In media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2012, <a href="/wiki/RT%C3%89" title="RTÉ">RTÉ</a> filmed in Portarlington for the TV show <i>Dirty Old Towns</i> over a number of weeks. The show, which was presented by <a href="/wiki/Dermot_Gavin" class="mw-redirect" title="Dermot Gavin">Dermot Gavin</a> and ran for 6 weeks, showed local people making improvements to the town. One of the additions was on the banks of the <a href="/wiki/River_Barrow" title="River Barrow">River Barrow</a>, where large red-painted letters spelling "L I F E" were erected. The original spelling was "L I V E", however when travelling from the <a href="/wiki/Offaly" class="mw-redirect" title="Offaly">Offaly</a> side of the town it looked like the word "E V I L". Other developments included the addition of two all-weather soccer pitches,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> and improvements to the People's Park. Old shops have been redecorated and closed premises repainted. The old French School, on the banks of the river and neglected for many years, was given a "facelift" by the local <a href="/wiki/Lions_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="Lions Club">Lions Club</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Events_and_culture">Events and culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portarlington,_County_Laois&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Events and culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Culture">Culture</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portarlington,_County_Laois&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The People's Museum, situated within the Catholic Club on Main Street in Portarlington is small but holds many different exhibits ranging from local memorabilia to a Bronze Age Celtic dagger. </p><p>Portarlington, its Savoy cinema (now closed) and the nearby Lea Castle appeared in the 1993 Irish film <i><a href="/wiki/Into_the_West_(film)" title="Into the West (film)">Into the West</a></i>. The town is also mentioned in <a href="/wiki/Christy_Moore" title="Christy Moore">Christy Moore</a>'s song "Welcome to the Cabaret", featured on his 1994 album <i><a href="/wiki/Live_at_the_Point_(1994_Christy_Moore_album)" title="Live at the Point (1994 Christy Moore album)">Live at the Point</a></i>. </p><p>Outdoor pursuits of angling and hunting are available. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="French_Festival">French Festival</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portarlington,_County_Laois&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: French Festival"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A French festival, sometimes known as the <i>Festival Français de Portarlington</i>, has historically been held in the summer.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The festival has typically run over a weekend, with live music, dance, sport, history, food and a parade. Portarlington's French influence and "Huguenot connections" are celebrated with street entertainers as well as French musicians playing on the opening day. No event was held in 2018.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sport">Sport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portarlington,_County_Laois&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Sport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sports clubs in the area include the <a href="/wiki/Gaelic_Athletic_Association" title="Gaelic Athletic Association">Gaelic Athletic Association</a> clubs of <a href="/wiki/Portarlington_GAA" title="Portarlington GAA">Portarlington GAA</a> (based at McCann Park and founded 1893), <a href="/wiki/O%27Dempseys_GAA" class="mw-redirect" title="O'Dempseys GAA">O'Dempseys GAA</a> (based in <a href="/wiki/Killenard" title="Killenard">Killenard</a> and founded 1951) and <a href="/wiki/Gracefield_GAA" title="Gracefield GAA">Gracefield GAA</a> (based at Gracefield and founded in 1920).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Portarlington_RFC" title="Portarlington RFC">Portarlington RFC</a> is the local <a href="/wiki/Rugby_union" title="Rugby union">rugby union</a> club. It was founded in 1974 and competes in the <a href="/wiki/Leinster_League" title="Leinster League">Leinster League</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">Association football</a> (soccer) clubs include Gracefield FC, Arlington AFC, and Portarlington Town FC, each of which competes in the Combined Counties Football League of the <a href="/wiki/Leinster_Football_Association" title="Leinster Football Association">Leinster Football Association</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Other sporting clubs in the area include Portarlington Kestrels Basketball Club, Portarlington Lawn Tennis Club, Portarlington Taekwondo and Portarlington Golf Club.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2020)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portarlington,_County_Laois&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Notable people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cathal_Berry" title="Cathal Berry">Cathal Berry</a>, TD for <a href="/wiki/Kildare_South_(D%C3%A1il_constituency)" title="Kildare South (Dáil constituency)">Kildare South</a> and Portarlington resident<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Burrowes" title="Peter Burrowes">Peter Burrowes</a> (1753–1841), Irish barrister and politician<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Carson" title="Edward Carson">Edward Carson</a> (1854–1935), Dublin-born Irish unionist politician, barrister and judge, went to school in Portarlington<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lily_Champ" title="Lily Champ">Lily Champ</a>, a gardener and writer from the town<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feargus_O%27Connor" title="Feargus O'Connor">Feargus O'Connor</a> (1794–1855), Chartist leader from County Cork, attended grammar school in Portarlington<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Wilson_Croker" title="John Wilson Croker">John Wilson Croker</a> (1780–1857), politician and essayist from Galway who went to school in Portarlington<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Emerson" title="Hugh Emerson">Hugh Emerson</a>, former footballer with Laois and <a href="/wiki/Portarlington_GAA" title="Portarlington GAA">Portarlington GAA</a><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aoife_Hoey" title="Aoife Hoey">Aoife Hoey</a>, Irish bobsledder<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Macauley" title="James Macauley">James Macauley</a>, professional footballer<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Pennefather_(judge)" title="Richard Pennefather (judge)">Richard Pennefather</a> (1773–1859), Tipperary-born judge, went to school in Portarlington<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Swift" title="Jonathan Swift">Jonathan Swift</a> (1667–1745), prolific writer and satirist, wrote large part of his famous work <i><a href="/wiki/Gulliver%27s_Travels" title="Gulliver's Travels">Gulliver's Travels</a></i> in Woodbrook House in Portarlington<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicole_Turner" title="Nicole Turner">Nicole Turner</a>, Paralympic swimmer<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portarlington,_County_Laois&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_towns_and_villages_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland" title="List of towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland">List of towns and villages in Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Market_Houses_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland" class="mw-redirect" title="Market Houses in the Republic of Ireland">Market Houses in Ireland</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Portarlington,_County_Laois&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFDempsey2017" class="citation cs2">Dempsey, Karen (2017), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.academia.edu/30584171">"Lea Castle, Co. Laois: the story so far"</a>, <i>The Castle Studies Group Journal</i>, <b>30</b>: 237–252</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Castle+Studies+Group+Journal&rft.atitle=Lea+Castle%2C+Co.+Laois%3A+the+story+so+far&rft.volume=30&rft.pages=237-252&rft.date=2017&rft.aulast=Dempsey&rft.aufirst=Karen&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.academia.edu%2F30584171&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APortarlington%2C+County+Laois" class="Z3988"></span> <span style="position:relative; top: -2px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Open_access" title="open access publication – free to read"><img alt="Open access icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Open_Access_logo_PLoS_transparent.svg/9px-Open_Access_logo_PLoS_transparent.svg.png" decoding="async" width="9" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Open_Access_logo_PLoS_transparent.svg/14px-Open_Access_logo_PLoS_transparent.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Open_Access_logo_PLoS_transparent.svg/18px-Open_Access_logo_PLoS_transparent.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGoode2008" class="citation book cs1">Goode, P.J (2008). <i>O'Dempsey Chronicles</i>. 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