Portlaoise

Portlaoise or Port Laoise is the county town of , 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.
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  • Type: Town with 23,500 residents
  • Description: county town of County Laois, Ireland
  • Also known as: “Maryboro”, “Maryboro‘”, “Maryborough”, “Port Laoise”, “Port Leix”, “Portlaoighise”, “Portlaoisas”, “Portlaoišas”, “Порт-Лише”, “Портлийш”, “پورتلوئیز”, “포트 리셔”, and “ポートラアス”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Portlaoise and O’Moore Park.

Railway station
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.
railway station is a station on the Dublin to Cork/Limerick lines in Ireland.

Stadium
O'Moore Park is a GAA stadium in Portlaoise, , .

Courthouse
Photo: AFBorchert, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a judicial facility in Portlaoise, , Ireland.

Portlaoise

Latitude
53.034° or 53° 2′ 2″ north
Longitude
-7.3001° or 7° 18′ 0″ west
Population
23,500
Elevation
101 metres (331 feet)
UN/LOCODE
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Open location code
9C5J2MMX+JX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 52245817
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2962026
Wiki­data ID
Q822871
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Portlaoise” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بورتلاويس”
  • Asturian: “Port Laoise”
  • Basque: “Port Laoise”
  • Basque: “Portlaoise”
  • Belarusian: “Порт-Ліш”
  • Breton: “Port Laoise”
  • Breton: “Portlaoise”
  • Bulgarian: “Портлийшъ”
  • Catalan: “Port Laoise”
  • Catalan: “Portlaoise”
  • Cebuano: “Portlaoise”
  • Chinese: “莱伊什港”
  • Chinese: “萊伊什港”
  • Czech: “Port Laoise”
  • Danish: “Portlaoise”
  • Dutch: “Portlaoise”
  • French: “Portlaoise”
  • Galician: “Port Laoise”
  • Georgian: “პორტ-ლიში”
  • German: “Port Laoise”
  • German: “Portlaoise”
  • Hebrew: “פורט ליש”
  • Indonesian: “Portlaoise”
  • Irish: “Port Laoighise”
  • Irish: “Port Laoise”
  • Irish: “Portlaoise”
  • Italian: “Port Laoise”
  • Italian: “Portlaoise”
  • Japanese: “ポート・レーイシュ”
  • Korean: “포트리셔”
  • Latvian: “Portlīša”
  • Lithuanian: “Portlaoise”
  • Lithuanian: “Portlišas”
  • Northern Frisian: “Portlaoise”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Portlaoise”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Portlaoise”
  • Norwegian: “Portlaoise”
  • Persian: “پورتلیشه”
  • Polish: “Portlaoise”
  • Portuguese: “Port Laoise”
  • Romanian: “Portlaoise”
  • Russian: “Порт-Лиише”
  • Serbian: “Portliš”
  • Serbian: “Портлиш”
  • Slovak: “Port Laoise”
  • Spanish: “Portlaoise”
  • Swahili: “Portlaoise”
  • Swedish: “Portlaoise”
  • Thai: “พอร์ตลีช”
  • Turkish: “Port Laoise”
  • Ukrainian: “Порт-Ліїше”
  • Urdu: “پورٹ لیش”
  • Welsh: “Port Laoise”

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Meelick and Gorteen.

County Laois: Must-Visit Destinations

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