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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Portlaoise and Abbeyleix.
Portlaoise
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Portlaoise or Port Laoise is the county town of County Laois, in the south midlands of Ireland. It's a large town that acts as a transport hub for the region and is within an hour's travel of Dublin.
Abbeyleix
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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.
Mountmellick
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Mountmellick is a town in County Laois, with a population of about 4900 in 2022. It's difficult to believe that this small place was once a large industrial town: English Quakers settled in the 17th century and founded breweries, a distillery, woollen mills, cotton, tanneries and glassworks.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Slieve Bloom Mountains and Portarlington.
Slieve Bloom Mountains
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The Slieve Bloom Mountains are a low range of mountains between County Laois and County Offaly. The upper reaches are a nature reserve open heath and blanket bog.
Portarlington
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Portarlington is a town in County Laois, with a population of 9300 in 2022. Locally it's referred to as "Port", but so too is nearby Portlaoise, so that term isn't used here.
Mountrath
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Mountrath is a town in County Laois, with a population in 2022 of about 2100. In the 18th and 19th century it was industrial, with weaving and metal-working from local iron ores.
County Laois
- Type: county of Ireland with 84,700 residents
- Description: county in Ireland
- Also known as: “Co. Laois”, “County Laoighis”, “County Leix”, “Laois”, “Laois Co.”, “Laois County”, “Queen’s Co.”, “Queen’s Cou.”, and “Queen’s County”
- Historically known as: “Leix”
- Neighbors: County Carlow, County Kildare, County Kilkenny, County Offaly, and County Tipperary
- Location: Leinster, East Coast and Midlands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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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”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Laois”
- Cebuano: “Laois”
- Chinese: “Laois Kūn”
- 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: “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: “Lišas grāfiste”
- 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 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: “ลาวอิส คันทรี่”
- Turkish: “Co Laois”
- Turkish: “Co Laoise”
- 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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