Portarlington

PortInfo-2021 website achieves Merit in Milestone 1 project

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At the beginning of February, I had to submit my first Milestone Project of my Diploma in Software Development course with Code Institute. I used HTML, CSS, Bootstrap 4, Adobe Fonts, Font Awesome, TinyPNG, MarkDown, and GitHub to create the site. I chose to create a local information page about the town in which I … Read more

An exploration of some heritage sites around Portarlington and Co. Laois

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An interesting few hours was spent this afternoon in the company of Mr John Stocks Powell, an historian with a particular interest in Portarlington and environs. Having met him by chance about a month ago, whilst out for a walk near Killenard, he invited us to go on a tour of some local places of … Read more