Abbeyleix

Abbeyleix is a town in County Laois, Ireland, positioned around 14 kilometres south of the county town of Portlaoise. Abbeyleix changed into previously located on the N8, the principle avenue from Dublin to Cork, and as a result supplied a bottleneck, with up to 15,000 vehicles passing alongside the city's principal avenue each day. Since May 2010, however, the town has been bypassed via the M8 dual carriageway, with the previous N8 consequently downgraded to the N77 countrywide secondary avenue. There become a agreement at Abbeyleix as early as 1183, that grew up near the River Nore, round a Cistercian monastery -which offers the metropolis its call.

Modern Abbeyleix is one of the oldest deliberate estate cities in Ireland. It changed into in large part constructed inside the 18th century by means of Viscount de Vesci. The Nore often flooding made the city an bad region to live. Around 1790, John Vesey decided that the city became no longer appropriate for his tenants, and started out to design a brand new one. The antique metropolis was leveled, and the residents moved to the brand new one. A memorial to the 2nd Viscount de Vesci, paid for by subscriptions, is within the city center. It features a water trough for horses.