New Inn sits at a crossroads in rural south-east Laois, between Mountrath and Carlow. The name refers to a coaching inn that once stood here — gone now, leaving only the townland name and a few houses scattered around the junction.
This is the kind of place you might stop for directions if you are lost, not because there is anything to do here. There is no pub, no shop, no reason to linger. It is quiet and rural and that is all.
There is no bad time. There are different times.
The fields are opening and the roads are dry.
The light is long. Drive the back roads.
Harvest light, quiet roads, the county at its ease.
Very rural, very quiet, no shelter or warmth.
South of Mountrath, between Mountrath and Carlow on small roads. Not on a main route.
Not served. Nearest services in Mountrath.