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Extract from the Portlaoise Travel Guides:
PORTLAOISE
is best known for its top-security
jail
and mental hospital - they're both on the same street, known to locals as Nuts 'n' Bolts Road. The prison was founded in 1547, when the O'Mores held the fortress of Dunamase to the south, as a fortification under the name of Fort Protector. The town itself is pretty unremarkable, though it does have a useful
tourist office
James Fintan Lawlor Ave (May-Sept Mon-Sat 10am-6pm; open sporadically at other times; tel 0502/21178) offering information on the whole county; reached by car by taking the bypass and stopping at the car park beside the new shopping ma...
read the whole Portlaoise Travel Guides...
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