Portarlington

Portarlington, traditionally called Cooletoodera, is a town on the border of County Laois and County Offaly, Ireland. The River Barrow forms the border. The city changed into recorded in the 2016 census as having a population of 8,368. Portarlington turned into founded in 1666, by way of Sir Henry Bennet, who were Home Secretary to Charles II and to whom that King, on his recovery, had made a provide of the vast estates of O Díomasaigh, Viscount Clanmalier, confiscated after the Irish Rebellion of 1641. After some problems, the provide exceeded to Sir Henry Bennet of all of the O Diomasaigh lands within the King's and Queen's Counties, and on 14 April 1664 he become created Baron Arlington of Harlington inside the County of Middlesex.

So exquisite changed into the anxiety of those new settlers to efface all historical recollections in Ireland, that the Parliament of Orrery and Ormond enacted that the governor and council ought to be capable of give new English names as opposed to the Irish names of locations; and that once a time such new names need to be the most effective ones known or allowed within the united states. In accordance with this enactment the borough created in Cooletoodera, obtained the name of Port-Arlington, or Arlington's Fort.