Laois (pronounced Leash), also spelt Laoighis or Leix, is a county in the midlands of Ireland. Situated in the province of Leinster, this small county is the only one in Ireland not bordered by another county with a coastline. Area: 1719 km² (664 square miles).
County Laois (pronounced Leash), also spelt Laoighis or Leix (Irish: Contae Laoise), is a county in the midlands of Ireland.
Situated in the province of Leinster, this small county is the only one in Ireland not bordered by another county with a coastline.
Finally, the county became home to a community of French Huguenots in the 1690s, who were settled in Ireland after their service to William of Orange in the Williamite war in Ireland.
QUEEN'S County, an inland county of the province of Leinster, bounded on the east by the counties of Kildare and Carlow, on the north by the King's county, on the west by the same and Tipperarycounty, and on the south by the counties of Kilkenny and Carlow.
The inequality is mostly caused by the escars, ridges of which traverse the county in several parts; they are mostly formed of rounded nodules of limestone, calcorcous sandstone, and coal shale, the parent rocks of which are found in the county or close to its confines.
The principal portion of the county belongs to the great floetz limestone field, which forms the base of the greater part of the level coutnry of Ireland; the Slieve-Bloom mountains in the north-west, are of the sandstone formation, and at the Slievemargue in the south-east, the coal formation commences.
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