Abbeyleix
Abbeyleix is a town in County Laois in the midlands of Ireland, with a population of 1770 in 2016. The abbey was Cistercian, founded in 1183 in the valley of the River Nore, and the original settlement grew up around it.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Peter Clarke, CC BY 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Abbeyleix Market House and Heritage House.
Abbeyleix Market House
Library
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Abbeyleix Market House is a library.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ballyroan and Raheen.
Ballyroan
Village
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Ballyroan is a small village in County Laois, Ireland. It is in the civil parish of Ballyroan and in the former barony of Cullenagh. The nearest town is Abbeyleix, 5 km to the south-west along the R425 road. Ballyroan is situated 4½ km northeast of Abbeyleix.
Raheen
Village
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Raheen is a small village south of Portlaoise in County Laois, Ireland. Raheen is situated 6 km north of Abbeyleix.
Abbeyleix
- Type: Town with 1,900 residents
- Description: town in County Laois, Ireland
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: County Laois, Leinster, East Coast and Midlands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.9145° or 52° 54′ 52″ northLongitude
-7.3482° or 7° 20′ 54″ westPopulation
1,900Elevation
111 metres (364 feet)United Nations Location Code
IE ABBOpen location code
9C4JWM72+QPOpenStreetMap ID
node 52220015OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Abbeyleix” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Abbeyleix”
- Basque: “Abbeyleix”
- Belarusian: “Абілейкс”
- Belarusian: “Пасёлак Абілейкс”
- Cebuano: “Abbeyleix”
- Chinese: “阿比莱克斯”
- Chinese: “阿比萊克斯”
- Czech: “Abbeylaois”
- Czech: “Abbeyleix”
- Dutch: “Abbeyleix”
- Finnish: “Abbeyleix”
- French: “Abbeyleix”
- German: “Abbeyleix”
- Irish: “Mainistir Laoise”
- Italian: “Abbeyleix”
- Japanese: “アビーリークス”
- Japanese: “アビーリーシュ”
- Lithuanian: “Abbeyleix”
- Lithuanian: “Abilaiksas”
- Lithuanian: “Abileiksas”
- Persian: “ابیلیکس”
- Polish: “Abbeyleix”
- Portuguese: “Abbeyleix”
- Russian: “Аббилейкс”
- Russian: “Аббиликс”
- Slovak: “Abbeylaois”
- Slovak: “Abbeyleix”
- Spanish: “Abbeyleix”
- Swedish: “Abbeylaois”
- Swedish: “Abbeyleix”
- Swedish: “Mainistir Laoise”
- Turkish: “Abbeyleix”
- Ukrainian: “Аббілейкс”
- Welsh: “Mainistir Laoise”
- “Abbeyleix”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Abbeyleix”. Photo: Peter Clarke, CC BY 3.0.