County Laois - Towns

Donaghmore is a wonderful little village and was the location for the film "All Things Bright and Beautiful". The village was originally a Norman fortification.

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Originally a Norman borough town. In the seventeenth century the Ormonds made it part of Killkenny. It was returned to the county in 1846 by Act of Parliament. It is a planned estate village, developed under the patronage of the Viscounts Ashbrook. Perhaps its finest feature is the suite of buildings around the Green under the gates and tastefully designed modern primary school and the important "castle" (1713-32) one of the last large pre-Palladian houses to be built in Ireland, and which was designed by its owner William Flower.

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Founded in the seventeenth century within a loop of the Owenass River. From the start a town of great industry and prosperity dominated by the enterprise of the Quaker community and later served by the Grand canal. Its enterprise is still exemplified by the Mountmellick Development Association which commissioned the conversion of a grain mill into a Business Park/Enterprise Centre for industry wishing to locate in the town. The centre also houses a Quaker museum, and exhibitons. A pleasing town with a fine square, architecturally impressive houses, shops and ecclesiastical buildings.

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At the foot of the mountains is the town of Mountrath, which also offers fishing and golf (9). At Borris-in-ossory are the ruins of a castle built to defend the main highway into Munster (Ballaghmore Castle is now open to the public) and at Aghaboe are the ruins of a fourteenth-century Dominican abbey.

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Founded in 1666 in a bend of the Barrow River by Sir Henry Bennett, Lord Arlington. After the Jacoite wars, the lands were given to General Rouvigney, Earl of Galway who established a thriving colony of French Huguenots in the town: separate chapels and schools were built for the English and French. Along with education (eventually 16 schools) the town became a centre for silversmiths and banking. Rouvigney sold his estate to the London Hollow Sword-blade Company, and from them it passed to the Dawson family until the late nineteenth-century. The town has Georgian, Huguenot and Victorian architecture of exceptional quality. An annual French Festival is held in the town.

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