Portlaoise Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Land

Bus

Portlaoise is at the busy junctions of the M7, N7 and N8.

Bus Éireann runs frequent buses on three main routes: to Cork (€9.50, three hours) via Abbeylleix, Cashel and Cahir; to Dublin (€9.30, 1¾ hours) via Kildare city; and along the N7 to Limerick (€11.30, three hours) via Mountrath, Borris-in-Ossory and Roscrea.

JJ Kavanagh & Sons (056-883 1106; www.jjkavanagh.ie) runs two buses per day Monday to Saturday to Carlow (€6, one hour) and Kilkenny (€7, 1½ hours).

Train

Portlaoise, just 70 minutes from Dublin (€18.50, 14 daily), is on the lines to Cork, Limerick and Tralee. The small train station (862 1303; Railway St) is a five-minute walk north of the town centre.

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