Housed in the historic North boy's school, the museum at Heritage House will transport you back in time, it allows you to journey with the pre - Christian warring tribes of Laois, witnessing their conversion to Christianity and the rise of the Norman influence, the suppression of the monastries at the hands of Henry VIII and our progress through plantations, the influence of the landlords and our brush with the industrial revolution. Learn how on enterprising landlord created much needed work for women and in a landlocked county exported carpets worldwide even carpeting the staterooms of the ill fated Titanic. Abbeyleix Heritage House Abbeyleix, Co Laois Tel: 057 6731653