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County Laois · Contae Laoise

County Laois, town by town

Every settlement in the county on its own page: what the map says is there, the streets it names, the things worth going for, and every bus and train that reaches it. Everything comes from open map data and the national timetable, and says so.

Main Street of Portlaoise, looking north-east.
Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
36
settlements
29
near a scheduled stop
1,462
distinct mapped places
377
mapped things to see

The towns

The villages

28 villages the map names inside the county boundary, each with its own page.

Questions people ask

How many towns and villages are there in County Laois?
36 settlements the map calls a city, a town or a village and places inside the county boundary: 0 cities, 8 towns and 28 villages.
Which places in County Laois have a bus or train?
29 of the 36 have a stop in the national timetable, which is the ones a scheduled bus or train calls at somewhere in the feed's year. The rest either have no stop in the published feed, or are served by a Local Link service that runs on demand and files no timetable.
Where does this come from?
Mapped settlements, boundaries, streets and places come from OpenStreetMap. Bus and train journey results use the National Transport Authority's published timetables. Our guides and suggested itineraries add descriptions and visiting information, with their sources linked on the relevant pages.

Events in County Laois

Checked against the organiser's own pages, placed by the venue rather than by whoever is running it.

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