Counsellor’s Folly
Counsellor’s Folly is a ruins in County Laois, Leinster.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mountmellick and Ballyfin.
Mountmellick
Photo: Trenchspike, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Ballyfin
Hamlet
Photo: Djkeddie, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ballyfin is a village and parish in the Slieve Bloom Mountains in County Laois, Ireland. It is around 8 km west of Portlaoise, on the L21121 local road which joins the R423 regional road between Mountrath and Mountmellick. Ballyfin is situated 8 km southwest of Counsellor’s Folly.
Clonygowan
Village
Photo: Sarah777, Public domain.
Clonygowan is a village in County Offaly, Ireland, on the R420 regional road between Tullamore to Portarlington road. As of the 2016 census, it had a population of 198 people. The main village centre is built around a central green. Clonygowan is situated 9 km northeast of Counsellor’s Folly.
Counsellor’s Folly
- Type: Ruins
- Category: building
- Location: County Laois, Leinster, East Coast and Midlands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.11885° or 53° 7′ 8″ northLongitude
-7.35827° or 7° 21′ 30″ westOpen location code
9C5J4J9R+GMOpenStreetMap ID
way 979881970OpenStreetMap feature
building=ruins
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