Housed in the historic north boys school, the museum at Heritage House will transport you back in time allowing you to journey with the pre-Christian warring tribes of Laois, witnessing their conversion to Christianity and the rise of monastic Laois. Learn of the Norman influence, the suppression of the monasteries 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 an 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.