Contact us:

By phone at: 057 87 30020

E-mail: abbeyleixlibrary@laoiscoco.ie

Address: Market House, Main Street, Abbeyleix, Co. Laois, R32 CY65.

SERVICES

Adult Lending: Children and Young Adult Sections: Foreign Language Novels: Large Print; Audio Books; Language; Travel; Sheet Music

Reference; Learning Resources;

Internet Access: Photocopying; Printing

Access to Ordnance Survey

Historic Maps

REGULAR EVENTS:

Eadrom Art  for 6 to 12 year olds and Crafty Art for 4 to 8 year olds. Details available in branch. 

Tech Workshop Every Tuesday from 12-1.

If you are having trouble with your laptop, phone, tablet, etc., drop in and we will try and help you out. If possible, bring your phone or laptop along with you so we can help! No registration needed, walk-ins welcome!

Junior Chess Club every Saturday morning at 10am.

Scrabble Club every Saturday morning at 11am.

Knitting Club 10.30am each Wednesday.

Adult Mindfulness Colouring every Tuesday morning from 11am.

LEGO CLUB The LEGO Club is back. Ages 5-9

Call 0578730020 or email abbeyleixlibrary@laoiscoco.ie to join our club.

Book Club

Abbeyleix library is trying to get a bookclub for adults started, so if you would like to join please call us at 0578730020 or email abbeyleixlibrary@laoiscoco.ie

LEGO Animation

This is a award winning joint venture by Abbeyleix & Durrow Libraries. During the course of the year both libraries will be running LEGO Animation classes for ages 10 and up. This is aimed at anyone between the ages of 10-18.

The aim is let then become creators and not just consumers of media, to use their smartphone, tablet & laptop constructively. To tell their story, whatever it may be.

So like any film project, we need writers, voice actors, artists, designers and LEGO builders. This is not just for lovers of LEGO.

So if you think you have someone who might be interested in this project and would like  to take on one of these roles, please contact us at lllanimationstudios@gmail.com

Past Events

WATERCOLOUR BEALTAINE WORKSHOP 

Below is a sample of what our artists got up to at Caroline Keane’s Watercolour Workshop at Abbeyleix Library during the Bealtaine Festival.

LEGO BUILDING COMPETITION 

With 67 different entries, over 70 competitors and a massive turnout on the day, we can safely say it was a massive event.

The quality of entries was such that I did not envy the judges task. Despite that, they did a great job in selecting our winners and Abbeyleix Library would like to thank Jessica and Faolán for all their hard work.

We would also like to thank all our master builders for their hard work and quality builds. The ingenuity and creativity on display was staggering and the stories to go with the sets were also brilliant.

Below is just a sample of builds that were on display, to see the rest please check out our Facebook page and help us select the winner of the Online Favourite Prize.

Laois Geology & Minecraft Rocks

For National Heritage we had Michele Castiaux from the Irish Geological Association presented a fun and informative workshop on geology and Irish rocks. We also talked about the popular game Minecraft and the rocks used in that.

We had a great time and would recommend people to check out Michele’s website https://www.geologyandenvironment.com/