The origin of this colony goes back to the early Christianity. There was a parochial church during the medieval period. A sheila-na-gig was discovered recently in the graveyard of the Church of Ireland church. Rosenallis grew as a village and it became a Quaker colony and linen centre later like Mountmellick. Less than a mile out of the village on the Mountmellick road is a beautiful “Society of Friends Rosenallis Burial Ground”.
Mountmellick was founded in the seventeenth century within a curve of the Owenass River. At the outset it was a town of great industry and prosperity dominated by the enterprise of the Quaker community and later served by the Grand Canal. The Mountmellick Development Association which commissioned the conversion of a grain mill into a Business Park/Enterprise Centre for industry wishing to locate in the town exemplifies the towns enterprise. There is a Quaker museum and exhibitons in this pleasing town with a fine square, architecturally impressive houses, shops and ecclesiastical buildings.
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Brielle House |
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Hill View Farm |
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Irishtown, Mountmellick, Laois |
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Laois |
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Mountmellick |
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3 Star |
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