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About Laurencetown

Laurencetown, An Baile Mór in Irish, is a village in County Galway, 58 km east of Galway. The map gives it 312 buildings and 0 named streets, with 7 places named on them in 14 kinds, and 73 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 66th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.

Where
58 km east of Galway, 128 km from Dublin
Position
53.2365° N, 8.1749° W, 83 m above sea level
Governed
Galway County Council, in the province of Connacht
On the model
312 buildings, 0 streets, 7 named places in 14 kinds
Castles of Connacht: Ballymore, Galway (2)
Castles of Connacht: Ballymore, Galway (2)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Castles of Connacht: Ballymore, Galway (1)
Castles of Connacht: Ballymore, Galway (1)·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Galway since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

440,198148,340277,73718412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 73 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Laurencetown; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Lawrencetown National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Laurencetown?
In County Galway, in the province of Connacht, 58 km east of Galway and 128 km from Dublin.
How big is Laurencetown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 312 buildings, 0 named streets and 7 named places, which by building count makes it the 66th largest of the 84 settlements this site covers in County Galway.
What is there to see in Laurencetown?
73 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Tobermurry, dermot and grainnes bed and Lisdavilla.
How do you get to Laurencetown?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Galway.
Has County Galway grown or shrunk?
The census counted 440,198 people in the county in 1841 and 277,737 in 2022.
312
buildings on the model
0
named streets
7
named places
14
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q3776251). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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