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The 3D model of Laurencetown: every building standing up, with the shops and services pinned

Laurencetown, street by street

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.

Laurencetown is a village of County Galway, 58 km east of Galway city. This page is a working model of it: every one of its 312 buildings stands on the map above, and 79 shops, cafés, schools, churches and services have a page each, with the street, the hours where recorded, the nearest bus stop and car park, and a plan of the streets around it. Everything comes from open map data and says so.

Today
Weather in Laurencetown

Live forecast for the centre, hour by hour and the week ahead.

Buses, roads, parking
Getting to Laurencetown

58 km from Galway, 78 km from Shannon Airport, 0 bus stops, 0 car parks.

See and do
Things to do

The arch, Belview, Ballymore Castle, Clontuskert, Eyrecourt.

Since 1585
The history of Laurencetown

Oghilmore, the castle of 1585, the village of 1700, the arch of 1782, Lewis's fairs, the estate's end.

Facts
About the town

where it is, what is here.

What is in Laurencetown

2 pubs, 1 schools, 1 banks, 3 churches and 4 parks and views and more, by kind. Each kind has a page listing every one, closest to the village first.

Food and drink
Services
Community
Things to see

All 14 kinds of place

Food and drink

Where to eat in Laurencetown

2 cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs on the map, 2 of them within 300 m of the village. 0 have hours on record.

  1. The Beautiful BirdPubs
  2. Pardy'sPubs

Pubs

Plan of Laurencetown with every place to eat marked

Every place to eat and drink as a pin; tap one for its page and directions.

Street by street

All 0 streets

The map names no street in Laurencetown yet.

Things to see around Laurencetown

Castles, abbeys, old churches, beaches, viewpoints and parks within 12 km, closest first, plus 42 ringforts and ancient sites and 5 holy wells on their own pages.

  1. dermot and grainnes bedMonuments · 1.8 km
  2. Dún an OchtaRuins · 3.2 km
  3. New GateRuins · 3.6 km
  4. Enclosure / or ringortMonuments · 4.1 km
  5. Eyrecourt CastleCastles · 5.2 km
  6. Clontuskert AbbeyAbbeys · 5.8 km
  7. Brackloon CastleCastles · 6.8 km
  8. Kilquain Church (ruins)Ruins · 7.0 km
  9. Clonfert HouseRuins · 7.8 km

Castles · Ringforts · Holy wells

Questions people ask

Where is Laurencetown?
Laurencetown is in County Galway, in the west of Ireland, 58 km east of Galway city and 128 km west of Dublin.
How far is Laurencetown from Galway?
58 km in a straight line from the village to the centre of Galway city; the road is a little longer.
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.
What is the weather like in Laurencetown today?
The weather page shows the live forecast for the centre, hour by hour for the next day and day by day for the week.

How the model is built

The buildings are OpenStreetMap footprints, read on 2026-09-18, stood up to the height the map records or a plain two storeys where it records none. Streets, water and the base map come from the same project through OpenFreeMap. Places are the named shops, services and public buildings on the map; each has its own page.

A building takes the colour of the kind of place inside it: restaurants in red, pharmacies in green, schools in yellow. Nothing is invented to fill a gap: a missing fact is shown as missing, with a link to add it to the map. More about the model.