Stradbally Hall

Stradbally Hall is a large house in Stradbally, County Laois, Ireland. It is owned by using the Cosby family and is positioned in the coronary heart of Stradbally, around ten minutes from Portlaoise on the N80. The property has hosted the Electric Picnic boutique arts and music festival since it started in 2004, hosts different events including the National Steam Rally, and is the venue for an Irish Scout Jamboree in July/August 2018. The Stradbally Woodland Railway operates a short slim gauge music on the grounds. During the English colonial plantations of Laois and Offaly, Elizabeth I of England took ownership of the Franciscan non secular residence in Stradbally, which she then gave to Francis Cosby as a reward for his part in suppressing the local Irish.

The circle of relatives rebuilt large elements of the estate and landscaped it to their tastes and dreams, which include the addition of a hermitage. Encountering financial difficulties, the circle of relatives left Ireland for the city of Bristol, England in the early eighteenth century. An account written at the time defined how the own family returned instead quick to Stradbally "no longer each person liking England".