Walking Heritage Tours at the Old Fort Quarter Festival 2025

Join us for a series of history tours of the Old Fort Quarter with renowned historians Teddy Fennelly and Michael Parsons during the Old Fort Quarter Festival. Leaving from the site of the new library on the main street of Portlaoise, be brought through the historic cultural quarter of Portlaoise town as Teddy and Michael regale stories of battles won and lost, the development of the town and the history of the fort – a colonial military fort built before any other colony of the British Empire.