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About Laurencetown

Laurencetown is a village in County Galway, 58 km east of Galway city. Oghilmore, then Ballymore, then the Lawrences' town: a village of 1700 with a Palladian house paid for in part by slave estates on Montserrat and an arch that celebrates 1782.

Where
58 km from Galway, 128 km from Dublin
Position
53.2365° N, 8.1749° W
In Irish
An Baile Mór
On the model
312 buildings, 0 streets, 79 places in 14 kinds
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Laurencetown on Wikipedia
The 3D model of Laurencetown with every named place pinned

A short history

  1. About 1585
    Ballymore Castle. John Lawrence, of the family from Ashton Hall outside Lancaster active in the English administration of Connacht, gained wide lands in the barony of Longford by marrying into the O'Maddens and built the castle.
  2. About 1700 and 1750
    The village. Founded and named Laurencetown, then expanded fifty years later.
  3. 16 April 1782
    The Volunteer Arch. Colonel Walter Lawrence raised the monument with its Latin inscription on liberty won by the armed sons of Hibernia after a long servitude.
  4. 1837
    Lewis's village. A police district centre with petty sessions on Thursdays, carpentry and joinery, fairs on 8 May, 22 August and 15 December, an octagonal market house on arches that carts drove through to be weighed, a Catholic church and a Methodist chapel and school.
  5. 1840s to 1920s
    The estate goes. After the Famine 4,300 acres went through the Encumbered Estates court; debt and family quarrels left no Laurence in residence by about 1908, the art was sold in 1912, and the last sale came in the 1920s.

The full history, 5 moments in order

What to see

  1. The Volunteer Arch

    Colonel Lawrence's monument of 1782.

  2. Belview

    The Laurence mansion and its parkland outside the village.

  3. Ballymore Castle

    The castle of about 1585, refurbished in 1815.

  4. Clontuskert Abbey5.8 km

    The priory 5.8 km away.

  5. Eyrecourt Castle5.2 km

    The Eyres' ruin 5.2 km south.

  6. Dún an Uchta3.2 km

    The fort 3 km off.

All the things to see and do

Questions people ask

Where is Laurencetown?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, in the west of Ireland: 58 km east of Galway city and 128 km west of Dublin, on the R355, nine miles south of Ballinasloe.
What is there in Laurencetown?
On the map, 79 named places in 14 kinds: 2 places to eat and drink, 0 shops, 1 school, church and public building, and 75 things to see within 12 km.
What is Lawrencetown known for?
The Lawrence family, Belview and its Montserrat money, the Volunteer Arch of 1782, and the market house on arches described in 1837.

Getting around

Laurencetown sits on the R355, nine miles south of Ballinasloe. 0 bus stops and 0 car parks are on the map.

History, sights and civic facts summarise Wikipedia, "Lawrencetown, County Galway" (CC BY-SA 4.0, read 2026-09-19). Population is the CSO census as listed there. Distances and everything on the model are OpenStreetMap.