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Laois County Council. Laois County Council ( Irish: Comhairle Chontae Laoise) is the local authority of County Laois, Ireland. As a county council, it is governed by the Local Government Act 2001. The council is responsible for housing and community, roads and transportation, urban planning and development, amenity and culture, and environment.
An election to all 19 seats on Laois County Council will be held on 7 June 2024 as part of the 2024 Irish local elections. [1] County Laois is divided into 3 local electoral areas (LEAs) to elect councillors for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV).
Timahoe ( Irish: Tigh Mochua: 'House of Mochua') [2] is a village in County Laois, Ireland, 12 kilometres (7 mi) south of Portlaoise on the R426 regional road . The population of Timahoe in 2002 was 517, a 2.6% increase since 1996. It increased to 527 in 2006. [3]
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Upper Woods is located in northwest County Laois, bounded to the northwest by the Slieve Bloom Mountains. History [ edit ] Upper Woods was part of the ancient Kingdom of Ossory (Osraige). [4]
County Laois (/ l iː ʃ / LEESH; Irish: Contae Laoise) is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Eastern and Midland Region and in the province of Leinster . It was known as Queen's County from 1556 to 1922. [3]
Laos, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR or LPDR), is the only landlocked country in Southeast Asia.At the heart of the Indochinese Peninsula, Laos is bordered by Myanmar and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the southeast, and Thailand to the west and southwest.
There are approximately 1,162 townlands in County Laois, Ireland. A plain version of this list showing townland names only is also available for easy alphabetical navigation and convenient overview. Duplicate names occur where there is more than one townland with the same name in the county.