OPW Heritage Ireland places in County Laois

3 OPW Heritage Ireland places to visit in County Laois, including 1 house & garden, 1 garden, 1 historic site. Tick them off your checklist as you go, or see them on the map.

Emo Court
Emo Court
House & Garden

James Gandon's domed neo-classical mansion of 1790 in Laois, seen by hour-long guided tour, with free lake and woodland parkland open all year; adult €8, free for English Heritage members, large car park.

Heywood Gardens
Heywood Gardens
Garden

Frederick Trench's eighteenth-century landscape of lakes and follies and Sir Edwin Lutyens's formal gardens with a sunken pool and loggia, near Ballinakill; free, open daily, car park and toilets at the gate lodge, dogs on leads.

Killeshin Church
Killeshin Church
Historic Site

The ruined 12th-century church of the early monastery of Gleann-Uisean west of Carlow, with a four-arched Romanesque doorway carved with beasts and bearded heads, one of the finest in Ireland; free, open-air.

See the full list of places

Places in other regions