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06 Sept 2025

PICTURES: Many stories written in picture perfect Laois house for sale for €435,000

The property was once home to a novelist

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The Old School House, Cross, Ballacolla, Co. Laois, R32D2V1

This house is a real "page turner". Once a primary school and subsequently a haven where James Ryan wrote several novels and his late wife, Caroline Walsh, literary editor of The Irish Times, compiled a number of short story collections. This is an exquisitely restored 3-bedroom home set in stunningly landscaped gardens.

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