County Laois

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County Laois was created in 1556 by Mary I of England as Queen's County, Laois received its current Irish language name following the Irish War of Independence although is known historically as a place where a large number of Quakers settled, and is now home to a Quaker museum as well as Donaghmore Workhouse and Famine Museum, which remembers the great famine. (1853 - 1886)








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