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Forest cottage, Stradbally Ireland




Stradbally is a town in County Laois, Ireland, situated in the midlands of Ireland along the N80 street, a National Secondary Route, around 12 km from Portlaoise. townland, a common area and notable barony. It is known for the introduction of engine hustling, the "Steam Rally" and the Electric Picnic. 

Stradbally has a long history coming to back to the sixth century. The place was classified "Mon-au-Bealing" and Colman Mac ua Laoise, who was a follower of St. Columba, built up a religious community there around then. In 1447 the Franciscans came to Mon-au-Bealing and by 1550 a little town comprising of a demolished house, some portion of the congregation, and a bunch of covered cabins had created around the cloister. The name Stradbally, Sraidbhaile Laoise, dates in any event from the sixteenth century as it is alluded to by that name in the Annals of the Four Masters. 

In 1552 it was conceded with every one of its belonging to Francis Cosby and his beneficiaries. This allow was affirmed and assessed by James the First to Richard Cosby in 1609. The town created affected by the Cosby family. In 1771 it contained a hundred houses and by 1794 the number had expanded to 216, the majority of which were slick and well-worked out of limestone taken from neighboring quarries. About a mile from the town there was a contract school for 50 kids. 

By 1831 the populace was 1,799 and the quantity of houses had developed to 306, with two flour factories working on the waterway that goes through the town. A Chief Constabulary Police Force was positioned in the town; general sessions of the harmony were held two times per year, and negligible sessions on option Fridays. The Courthouse comprised of a flawless building and joined to it was a little Bridewell containing three cells, multi day rooms and an airing yard. 

There was a dispensery and an investment funds bank in the town. The town has a consistent history of processing going back to 1596 when there was a factory and millrace there. There was additionally a cotton processing plant which had a work power of 200 individuals, and in 1801 a Doctor Lamphier had a distillery which provided an amazing refreshment in the town. 

Stradbally Hall, seat of the Cosby family, as it shows up today dates from the center of the nineteenth Century. Diminish Burrows Kelly, creator of the "House of Glenmore," was conceived in Stradbally in 1811, as was John Cannon O'Hanlon creator of "The Lives of the Irish Saints" and "History of the Queen's County." Cecil Day Lewis, artist laureate from 1968 to 1972, was conceived in 1904 in Ballintubber, Stradbally. Kevin O'Higgins was conceived in Stradbally in 1892 and a landmark to the O'Higgins family remains in the Court Square.
Irish Historic Houses Association

Killeshin, County Laois

Stradbally Hall



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