7mi/11km northwest of Portlaoise is Mountmellick, almost completely encircled by the River Owenass (trout fishing). Here the Quakers opened their first school in Ireland in 1677; and at Rosenallis, 4.5mi/7km northwest at the foot of the Slieve Bloom Mountains, they established their first large cemetery. At Mountmellick, and also to the north of
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