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The Best Attractions In Portlaoise

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Port Laoise, or Portlaoise is the county town of County Laois, Ireland. It is located in the South Midlands in the province of Leinster. It is the most populous and also the most densely populated town in the Midlands Region, which has a total population of 292,301 at the 2016 census. The 2016 census shows that the town's population increased by 9.5% to 22,050, which is well above the national average of 3.8%. This also makes it the fastest growing of the top 20 largest towns and cities in Ireland.It was an important town in the medieval period, as the site of the Fort of Maryborough, a fort built by English settlers in the 16th Century. Port Laoise is...
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The Best Attractions In Portlaoise

  • 1. Rock of Dunamase Portlaoise
    Dunamase or The Rock of Dunamase is a rocky outcrop in the townland of Park or Dunamase in County Laois. The rock, 46 metres above a flat plain, has the ruins of Dunamase Castle, a defensive stronghold dating from the early Hiberno-Norman period with a view across to the Slieve Bloom Mountains. It is near the N80 road between the towns of Portlaoise and Stradbally.
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  • 11. Bru na Boinne Donore
    Brú na Bóinne or Boyne valley tombs, is an area in County Meath, Ireland, located in a bend of the River Boyne. It contains one of the world's most important prehistoric landscapes dating from the Neolithic period, including the large Megalithic passage graves of Knowth, Newgrange and Dowth as well as some 90 additional monuments. The archaeological culture associated with these sites is called the Boyne culture. Since 1993 the site has been a World Heritage Site designated by UNESCO, known since 2013 as Brú na Bóinne - Archaeological Ensemble of the Bend of the Boyne.
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  • 12. Wicklow Mountains National Park Glendalough Village
    The Wicklow Mountains form the largest continuous upland area in Ireland. They occupy the whole centre of County Wicklow and stretch outside its borders into Counties Dublin, Wexford and Carlow. Where the mountains extend into County Dublin, they are known locally as the Dublin Mountains . The highest peak is Lugnaquilla at 925 metres . The mountains are primarily composed of granite surrounded by an envelope of mica-schist and much older rocks such as quartzite. They were pushed up during the Caledonian orogeny at the start of the Devonian period and form part of the Leinster Chain, the largest continuous area of granite in Ireland and Britain. The mountains owe much of their present topography to the effects of the last ice age, which deepened the valleys and created corrie and ribbon la...
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  • 13. Rock of Cashel Cashel
    The Rock of Cashel , also known as Cashel of the Kings and St. Patrick's Rock, is a historic site located at Cashel, County Tipperary, Ireland.
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  • 14. Castlecomer Discovery Park Castlecomer
    Castlecomer is a town in the north of County Kilkenny, Ireland. The town was associated with the coal mining industry since the 17th century. At the 2011 census, the Central Statistics Office recorded that the 30.5 square kilometers of the Castlecomer Electoral District had a population was 2,293, with a population density of 75.2 persons per square kilometer. This was a decrease of 4.5% from the 2006 figure of 2,407 persons. The Castlecomer rural area has a population of 8,484. The town is positioned at the meeting of N78 and R694 roads about 16 km roads north of Kilkenny city. Castlecomer rural area has an area of 23,417 hectares. The town is part of a discrete area called the Castlecomer Plateau. It is bounded on the east by the River Barrow, the west by the River Nore and dissected in ...
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  • 15. Trim Castle Trim
    Trim Castle is a Norman castle on the south bank of the River Boyne in Trim, County Meath, Ireland. With an area of 30,000 m², it is the largest Norman castle in Ireland. Over a period of 30 years, it was built by Hugh de Lacy and his son Walter as the caput of the Lordship of Meath.
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