One of Ireland’s most beautiful treasures lies near the village of Portarlington. This national gem is known as Emo Court and Gardens, and is a fine example of the traditional large country house in the neoclassical style.
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Emo Court and Gardens
Rock of Dunamase
A short distance from the towns of Portlaoise and Stradbally, in dramatic contrast to the surrounding countryside of most of County Laois, rises the Rock of Dunamase, probably the county’s most widely recognized heritage site.
The name Dunamase…
Slieve Bloom Mountains
Beautiful, suprising, haunting and lonely, Ireland’s Slieve Bloom Mountains are rarely visited by the Irish, let alone visitors. The mountain range forms a broad elongated dome, extending for almost 25km in a north-easterly/south-westerly direction on the Laois/Offaly border, near…