This site will contain the information for County Laois or Queen's Co. currently held on the

Laois or Queen's Co. section of my "From Ireland" web site, plus a lot more

What you see on the From Ireland web site or even currently on this site is only a fraction of the information that I have for County Laois and which I intend bringing on line through this Laois web site. My name is Jane Lyons, and I was brought up in Laois, currently I live in Dubin and work as a genealogist when I am not busy creating new web pages for my web sites. You will find information on this web site that is unavailable anywhere else on the internet or in any Family History Library in the world. I have spent the last ten years transcribing, indexing and photographing information pertaining to County Laois or Queen's Co. - and in that, I have still only touched the top of the iceberg as they say. When we were in school, we were taught that Laois was flat, we never learned anything much that told us of what a beautiful county it really is, the history that we have - these days, it's a bit different with the Sliabh Bloom Mountains, Dunamaise and places like Grantstown being pointed out to us, but back then 30-40 years ago it was all the beauty of Kerry, Donegal, Galway - the history of Kilkenny, the Pale - it was never much about Laois. Today, as I go from place to place in Laois, as I go to graveyards, villages, towns, I see it all so differently. As a county, we weren't hit by the famine in the same way as other counties were, but disease, death, emigration came all the same. Laois has beauty to it and she has history too.

The information contained here is free - but, it costs me money to keep the web site on line, to get the information to put on line. It takes at least a day to collect information and create a web page, even longer to photograph a cemetery and up to a week to go through photographs reading the names and indexing a graveyard. I would ask you, the people who visit this site to consider these things and to visit my sponsors such as Google.

I would appreciate feedback on this site, particularly in the area of how to keep it as a free resource. You'll find an email contact address at the end of most pages. This web site has been created by a person with no official web site design training, it will never compare to those created by professionals, but if you tell me what you don't like about the lay out, then maybe I can find out how to lay it out differently

Records currently on 'Laois or Queen's Co. Ireland Genealogy'

Gravestone photographs : Acragar Ivy Graveyard : Aghmacart or Aughmacart old cemetery : St. Jude's, Anatrim : Anatrim Old : Ballacolla Old, R.C. : Ballybuggy, Rathdowney : Ballynakill New : Bordwell : Camross : Castlefleming : Clonkeen : St. Lazerian's, Chapel Cross Roads, Spink : Clonaslee new : Coolbanagher, St. John's : Cullahill (see Millenium Garden below) Curraghclone : Durrow Roman Catholic : Killenard : Killermogh : St. Joseph's, Mountmellick : Pike of Rushall : Portarlington New : St. Bridget's Church, Rosenallis : Stradbally Old : Round Tower Timahoe :

Memorial Parks: Abbeyleix : Ballyquaid Mass Pit : Cullahill Millenium Garden :

Parish Record Extracts or Indices : Aghaboe : Borris in Ossory : Cappinrush : Clonaslee : Emo : Portarlington : Raheen : Rathdowney : Stradbally :

1901 Census Heads of Household Index : Abbeyleix civil parish : Aghaboe civil parish : Aghmacart or Aughmacart Civil Parish : Agharney or Aharney Civil Parish : Ardea Civil Parish : Attanagh Civil Parish : Ballyadams Civil Parish : Ballyroan Civil Parish : Bordwell Civil Parish ; Borris Civil Parish : Castlebrack Civil Parish : Cloydagh Civil Parish : Coolbanagher Civil Parish : Coolkerry Civil Parish : Curraghclone Civil Parish : Donaghmore Civil Parish : Durrow Civil Parish : Dysartenos Civil Parish : Dysartgallen Civil Parish : Eirke Civil Parish : Fossy or Timahoe Civil Parish : Glashare Civil Parish

Google Groups: Carlow, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Offaly Ireland Genealogy A new group that I set up recently. It's only got a few members so far, but then again, once upon a time Y-IRL the Yahoo group which I created back in 2001 had only a few members and today, it's one of the largest Irish Genealogy groups on the internet

Yahoo Group : Ireland Genealogy (Y-IRL) A group set up by me in 2001 and currently with over 1700 members