🌐 If The Past Could Talk

Portlaw: The Quaker Mill Village

📍 Waterford🚶 5 stops🚶️ 1.41km⌛ ~35 min

A vast cotton factory that once employed thousands under the Quaker Malcomson family, a Gothic Revival church with "Hindu Gothic" stone carving, and the planned streets of one of Ireland's great model industrial villages — 5 stops through Portlaw. Looking for things to do in Portlaw? Start here — no car, no ticket, no booking.

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Stops on This Trail

  1. Portlaw Cotton Factory
  2. Holy Trinity Church
  3. Leslie Lennon Memorial
  4. Portlaw Bridge
  5. Portlaw National School

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