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Portlaoise, County Laois

Things to do in Portlaoise

Find places that fit your time and your plans. 50 of them are in Portlaoise itself and 113 more within twelve kilometres, because the castle outside the village is usually the reason to go to the village.

96 places

Places to explore in pictures

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Showing 96 of 163 places, with photographs first. Every kind of place in Portlaoise lists the rest.

50
in Portlaoise
113
within 12 km
79
outdoors
12
indoors
14
for children

Put a day together

A day on foot in Portlaoise: 9 stops the map records, joined in the shortest order that walks them all, 3.95 km in total.

Portlaoise in a day

By kind

While you are there

88 places to eat and 6 places to stay on the map in Portlaoise, and 24 bus and train lines calling here.

Places to eat·Portlaoise on the map·Getting to Portlaoise

Questions people ask

What is there to do in Portlaoise?
50 places inside Portlaoise and 113 more within twelve kilometres, mostly woods, monuments and waymarks and guideposts.
How is indoors or outdoors decided?
By what kind of place each one is: a museum is indoors, a park is not, a castle is some of each. OpenStreetMap carries an indoor tag on about one visitor place in three hundred, so a filter built on the tag would hide almost everything. This is a rule about kinds of place, not a claim about any one of them.
Does with kids mean it is suitable for my child?
No. It means the kind of place children generally do: playgrounds, beaches, parks, zoos, museums. The map records an age limit on a handful of places in the country, so nothing here claims a place suits a particular age.
What does it cost, and when is it open?
This page does not say. OpenStreetMap records a fee on about one visitor place in sixty and opening hours on one in fifty, so stating either would mean guessing for almost everything. Each place's own page shows what the map does hold and links to the operator.
How do you get to Portlaoise?
24 bus and train lines call at a stop in Portlaoise in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, City Direct and Dublin Coach. Which of them runs on the day you are going, and how long it takes from where you are starting, is worked out on the Getting to Portlaoise page.

Places are OpenStreetMap records and each links to the one it came from. Indoors, outdoors and with kids are worked out from what kind of place a thing is, not from tags on it, because the tags exist on almost none of them. Visit lengths are a default for each kind. Distances are straight lines from the centre of Portlaoise.