Portlaoise

Port Laoise, or Portlaoise is the county town of County Laois, Ireland. It is placed within the South Midlands inside the province of Leinster. The 2016 census suggests that the metropolis's population elevated via 9.5percent to 22,050, that's well above the national common of 3.8 percent. It is the maximum populous and additionally the most densely populated town within the Midlands Region, which has a complete populace of 292,301 on the 2016 census.

This additionally makes it the fastest developing of the top 20 biggest towns and towns in Ireland. It turned into an vital city in the medieval period, because the website online of the Fort of Maryborough, a fort constructed with the aid of English settlers inside the sixteenth century. Port Laoise is fringed by way of the Slieve Bloom mountains to the west and north-west and the Great Heath of Maryborough to the east. It is awesome for its structure, engineering and delivery connections. On the countrywide avenue network, Port Laoise is positioned 80 km south-west from Dublin on the M7, 170 km north-east from Cork on the M8/M7 and 113 km east-northeast of Limerick at the M7.