Town of Ballinakill
This is a typically seventeenth-century market town while the ruins of Ballinakill Castle represents a late seventeenth-century castle built by the Dunnes (but never inhabited). This castle had been erected on the site of one that was once destroyed by Cormwellian troops under Fairfax. The streets around the large rectangular square was characterised by an eighteenth-century configuration. is marked by Two trees known as Toll Trees marked the town’s entrance from Abbeyleix and a toll had to be paid here by visitors to the town. This town had important carnivals, a brewery, and factories producing wool and tan.