Grantstown Wood and Grantstown Lough is a national nature reserve of approximately 120 acres (0.49 km2) located in County Laois, Ireland. It is managed by the Irish National Parks & Wildlife Service.
Castle Durrow is an 18th-century country house in Durrow, County Laois, Ireland. The house was built in the pre-Palladian design and formal gardens that were popular in the 18th century.
Aghaboe (Irish: Achadh Bhó, meaning 'field of cows') is a small village in County Laois, Ireland. It is located on the R434 regional road in the rural hinterland west of the town of Abbeyleix.
The Abbey of Aghaboe is one of the most important of the abbeys and priories in County Laois. It was founded in the kingdom of Osraige by St. Canice in the 6th century. In his Vita Sancti Columbae (Life of St. Columba), Adomnán refers to the abbey, saying that its name means a (little field) of the cow: "quod Latine Campulus Bovis dicitur, Scotice vero Achadh-bou"
Cullahill or Cullohill (Irish: Cúlchoill / an Chúlchoill, meaning 'the back of the woods/behind the woods') is a small village situated on the R639 road in County Laois, Ireland. Cullahill takes its name from an ancient forest that covered Cullahill Mountain and extended down to Cullahill Castle.
Ballacolla, officially Ballycolla (Irish: Baile Cholla), is a village in County Laois, Ireland. It sits at the crossroads of the R433 and R434 regional roads, 8 km (5.0 mi) southwest of Abbeyleix and 4 km northeast of junction 3 of the M8 motorway. ‘In Irish it is called Bolliacholla, i.e., Baile a’ Chalaidh, the townland of the ... long, coarse, sedgy grass’ de réir an Chorragánaigh; deir sé ‘Dr. Joyce’s explanation … town of a man named Colla, is incorrect’.
Aghaboe, or Aughavoe, is a civil parish in County Laois. It lies partly in the barony of Clarmallagh and partly in the barony of Clandonagh.
Bordwell, or Boardwell, is a civil parish in County Laois, Ireland.
Chapelhill is a townland in County Laois in Ireland. A small part of it, comprising a little over three acres, is in the civil parish of Aghaboe but most of it (a little over 104 acres) lies in the civil parish of Bordwell. The village of Clough lies in this latter part of the townland.
Cullahill Castle was the principal stronghold of the MacGillapatricks of Upper Ossory built around 1425 and destroyed around 1650. Cullahill Castle takes its name from an ancient forest that covered Cullahill Mountain and extended down to Cullahill village.
The Harps GAA is a hurling, Gaelic football and camogie club in County Laois, Ireland. It is a combination of players from the villages of Cullohill and Durrow.
Middlemount (part of which is also called Ballyvoghlaun) is a townland in County Laois.
Coolkerry (Irish: Cúil Chéire, Ceir's nook) is a townland in Coolkerry civil parish in County Laois.