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County Galway
Ireland
Villages
Laurencetown
descriptions from Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837
1840's Laurence town Site Centered Town Map at Past Homes.com
LAURENCETOWN, a village, in the parish of CLONFERT, barony of LONGFORD, county of GALWAY, and province of CONNAUGHT, 6 miles (S.) from Ballinasloe, on the road to Eyrecourt, to which places it has a penny post: the population is returned with the parish.
It is a chief constabulary police station, and petty sessions are held weekly on Thursday. A considerable quantity of wooden ware and furniture is manufactured here, and fairs are held on May 8th, Aug. 22nd, and Dec.15th, for cattle, sheep, and pigs.
The Roman Catholic chapel for this part of the district is a good modern building; and the Wesleyan Methodists also have a chapel here and support a school.
The seats in the vicinity are Bellevue or Liscreaghan, the residence of Walter Laurence, Esq situated in an extensive and well-wooded demesne containing a number of remarkably fine cedars of Lebanon and evergreen oaks; Gortnamona, the elegant seat of P. Blake, Esq.; Somerset House, of Simeon Seymour, Esq.; Somerset Glebe, of the Rev. J. Hanigan; and Ballymore Castle, of Thos. Seymour, Esq., a fortified structure erected in 1620, and modernised at a considerable expense in 1815. Near the town are the ruins of the castle of O'Hill from which it formerly took the name of Ohillmore.
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