Laois

Laois is a county in Ireland. It is placed in the south of the Midlands Region and is likewise located in the province of Leinster, and became formerly called Queen's County. The present day county takes its call from Loígis, a medieval nation. Laois County Council is the local authority for the county. At the 2016 census, the populace of the county become eighty four,697, an growth of 26 percentage because the 2006 census. The first humans in Laois were bands of hunters and gatherers who passed via the county approximately 8,500 years in the past. They hunted in the forests that included Laois and fished in its rivers, gathering nuts and berries to complement their diets.

Next came Ireland’s first farmers. These people of the Neolithic length cleared forests and planted plants. Their burial mounds remain in Clonaslee and Cuffsborough. Starting round 2500 BC, the humans of the Bronze Age lived in Laois. They produced weapons, equipment and golden gadgets. Visitors to the county can see a stone circle they left behind at Monamonry, as well as the stays of their hill forts at Clopook and Monelly. Skirk, near Borris-in-Ossory, has a Bronze Age standing stone and ring citadel. The body of Cashel Man indicates that ritual killing came about around 2000 BC.