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Extract from the Mountmellick and Portarlington Travel Guides:
Mountmellick and Portarlington are typical of the few little settlements that grew up independently of the great houses, and both were communities of outsiders.
MOUNTMELLICK
, about six miles north of Portlaoise on the N80, was founded in the seventeenth century by Quakers and still has a spacious eighteenth-century feel to it. You need imagination to see the houses as the elegant buildings they must once have been, but Mountmellick in its heyday was undoubtedly both cultured and prosperous - it had 27 industries, including brewing, distilling, soap- and glue-making and iron foundries. It was also famous for
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