The picture shows the Gates and Gate Lodge of what was Woodlock Convent & Nursing Home on the very fringe of Portlaw Village,County Waterford. All of this property is under new Ownership and has a planning notice attached to it's railings. The Convent / Nursing Home was run by an Order of Nuns attached to a French Order and was surely known up and down the Country,The Founder of the Order of The Sisters of St.Joseph of Cluny,,Was Ann Marie Javouhey from France 1779 to 1851 and She was Beatified on 15th. October 1950,,,,, Please Google,,,PORTLAW.Last Mass at Woodlock Convent,,,, and You will see a wealth of Information and Photographs by Sean o'Brien,,,some very old Pictures & also The Pictures taken at the Switching Off of the Lights by the Last remaining Six Sisters,before they left the Convent for the Last Time,,,Please I ask you to visit this very Wonderful & Informative Site,,,,, It is a Credit to Sean & Two more of his Fellow Members of The Carrick-on Suir Camera Club,,,,It will be well worth your Time Indeed,,,,, I Congratulate Sean & his Fellow Photographers,,God Bless