Mountrath

Mountrath is a small city in County Laois, Ireland. The town lies on the R445 halfway between Dublin and Limerick, precisely 96.5 km from each cities. The metropolis was bypassed by the M7 dual carriageway in 2010 leading to a sizable easing of traffic congestion in the town. In 2016 it had a population of one,774. The river that flows through the city is referred to as the Whitehorse and gets its name from the white colouring that become present in its water from the whiskey distillery that was within the centre of the town. The phrase "Mountrath" comes from the Gaelic word "Moin Ratha"; which means "Fort of the lavatory".

Near Mountrath at the R445 closer to Portlaoise is a shapeless old Wish Tree in the shape of a Sycamore tree referred to as St Fintan's Well. The unique properly turned into crammed in, but the water re-seemed inside the centre of the tree. Hundreds of Irish pennies have been overwhelmed into the bark as desirable success services, until they ultimately had apparently killed the tree but it commenced to sprout new shoots from its trunk and is growing again. Local folklore shows that the water in the centre of the tree changed into a therapy for warts.