County Laois
County Laois is in the East Coast and Midlands region of Ireland. Historically it was on the western fringe of Leinster, but modern transport puts it within commuting distance of Dublin, only an hour away.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Portlaoise and Abbeyleix.
Portlaoise
Portlaoise or Port Laoise is the county town of County Laois, in the midlands of Ireland.
Abbeyleix
Abbeyleix is a town in County Laois in the midlands of Ireland, with a population of 1770 in 2016.
Mountmellick
Mountmellick is a town in County Laois, with a population of about 4900 in 2022.
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Slieve Bloom Mountains
The Slieve Bloom Mountains are a low range of mountains between County Laois and County Offaly.
Portarlington
Portarlington is a town in County Laois, with a population of 9300 in 2022.
Mountrath
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Mountrath is a town in County Laois, with a population in 2022 of about 2100.
County Laois
- County of Ireland with about 67,000 residents
- …was formerly known as “Leix”
- Description: county in Ireland
- Also known as“Co. Laois”“County Laoighis”“County Leix”“Laois”“Laois Co.”“Laois County”“Queen’s Co.”“Queen’s Cou.”“Queen’s County”
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- Location
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Latitude of center
53° north
Longitude of center
-7.4° or 7° 24′ west
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“County Laois” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة ليش”
- Asturian: “Condáu de Laois”
- Balinese: “County Laois”
- Basque: “Laois konderria”
- Basque: “Laoiseko konderria”
- Belarusian: “графтсва Лііш”
- Belarusian: “Лііш (графства)”
- Belarusian: “Лііш”
- Belarusian: “Порт-Ліш”
- Bengali: “কাউন্টি লাওইস”
- Breton: “Kontelezh Laois”
- Bulgarian: “Лийш”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Laois”
- Cebuano: “Laois”
- Chinese: “莱伊什郡”
- Chinese: “萊伊什郡”
- Czech: “Hrabství Laois”
- Danish: “County Laois”
- Dutch: “County Laois”
- Esperanto: “Graflando Laois”
- Estonian: “Laoisi krahvkond”
- Finnish: “Laois”
- Finnish: “Laoisin kreivikunta”
- French: “Comté de Laois”
- French: “Laois”
- Galician: “Condado de Laois”
- Georgian: “ლიშის საგრაფო”
- German: “County Laois”
- Greek: “κομητεία Λέιοαϊς”
- Greek: “Λέιοαϊς”
- Gujarati: “કાઉન્ટી લાઓઇસ”
- Hebrew: “מחוז לייש”
- Hebrew: “מחוז ליש”
- Hindi: “काउंटी लाओइस”
- Hungarian: “Laois megye”
- Indonesian: “County Laois”
- Irish: “Co. Laoise”
- Irish: “Contae Laoighise”
- Irish: “Contae Laoise”
- Irish: “Laoighis”
- Irish: “Laois”
- Irish: “Laoise”
- Italian: “Contea di Laois”
- Italian: “Laois”
- Japanese: “リーシュ県”
- Kannada: “ಕೌಂಟಿ ಲಾವೋಯಿಸ್”
- Korean: “레이시주”
- Kurdish: “County Laois”
- Latin: “Comitatus Licensis”
- Latvian: “Līšas grāfiste”
- Lithuanian: “Lišo grafystė”
- Macedonian: “Лиш”
- Malay: “County Laois”
- Manx: “Coontae Leesh”
- Marathi: “काउंटी लॉईस”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Laois Kūn”
- Northern Frisian: “Laois”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Laois”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “County Laois”
- Norwegian: “Laois”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Leix”
- Persian: “شهرستان لیش”
- Polish: “Laois”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Laois”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Laois”
- Russian: “Лиишь”
- Scots: “Coontie Laois”
- Scots: “Coonty Laois”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Contae Laoighise”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Contae Laoise”
- Serbian: “Лиш”
- Sinhala: “ලාඕයිස් ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Contae Laoise”
- Slovak: “County Laois”
- Slovak: “Grófstvo Laois”
- Slovak: “Laois”
- Spanish: “Condado de Laois”
- Swahili: “Wilaya ya Laois”
- Swedish: “Laois”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Лийш”
- Tamil: “கவுண்டி லவ்ய்ஸ்”
- Telugu: “కౌంటీ లావోయిస్”
- Thai: “เทศมณฑลลีช”
- Thai: “ลาวอิส คันทรี่”
- Tumbuka: “Laois, Ireland”
- Turkish: “Co. Laois”
- Turkish: “Co. Laoise”
- Turkish: “Contae Laoise”
- Turkish: “County Laois”
- Turkish: “IE-LS”
- Turkish: “Laois Co.”
- Turkish: “Laois County”
- Turkish: “Laois ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Laois Kontluğu”
- Turkish: “Queen’s Co.”
- Turkish: “Queen’s Cou.”
- Turkish: “Queen’s County”
- Ukrainian: “графство Ліїш”
- Ukrainian: “Ліїш”
- Urdu: “کاؤنٹی لیش”
- Vietnamese: “Hạt Laois”
- Welsh: “Swydd Laois”
- Western Panjabi: “لاؤیز”
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