Laurencetown or Lawrencetown is a small

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County Down County Down () is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. It covers an area of and has a population of 531,665. It borders County Antrim to the ...

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. It sits on the

River Bann The River Bann (from ga, An Bhanna, meaning "the goddess"; Ulster-Scots: ''Bann Wattèr'') is one of the longest rivers in Northern Ireland, its length, Upper and Lower Bann combined, being 129 km (80 mi). However, the total lengt ...

, along the main road between the towns of

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and

Portadown Portadown () is a town in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The town sits on the River Bann in the north of the county, about southwest of Belfast. It is in the Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council area and had a population of a ...

. It is within the

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of Tullylish and covers the

townland A townland ( ga, baile fearainn; Ulster-Scots: ''toonlann'') is a small geographical division of land, historically and currently used in Ireland and in the Western Isles in Scotland, typically covering . The townland system is of Gaelic origi ...

s of Knocknagore and Drumnascamph. In the 2011 Census it had a population of 956 people. In Irish, it is known as ''Baile Labhráis'' (Lawrence's Townland).

Places of interest

Lawrencetown House, close to the village, was built before 1834 and features a walled garden and extensive lawns stretching to the River Bann. Lawrenctown park, between the Federal Tyres and Nearby Lawrenctown.

People

John Butler Yeats John Butler Yeats (16 March 1839 – 3 February 1922) was an Irish people, Irish artist and the father of W. B. Yeats, Lily Yeats, Elizabeth Yeats, Elizabeth Corbett "Lolly" Yeats and Jack Butler Yeats. The National Gallery of Ireland holds a nu ...

(1839-1922), an

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artist and the father of

William Butler Yeats William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish liter ...

and

Jack Butler Yeats Jack Butler Yeats RHA (29 August 1871 – 28 March 1957) was an Irish art The history of Irish art starts around 3200 BC with Neolithic stone carvings at the Newgrange megalithic tomb, part of the Brú na Bóinne complex which still stands ...

was born here *Lawrencetown was also the birthplace of

William Dawson Lawrence William Dawson Lawrence (16 July 1817 – 8 December 1886) was a successful shipbuilder, businessman and politician. He built the ''William D. Lawrence'', which is reported to be the largest wooden ship ever built in Canada. In 1874, W.D. La ...

(1817-1886), a successful shipbuilder, businessman and politician in

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, who is reported to have built the largest wooden ship in the world in 1874

Demographics

* 956 Population 011– Census *0.3717 km² Area *2,572/km² Population Density *4.3% Annual Population Change 001 → 2011Country of Birth (C 2011) *Northern Ireland 887 *Great Britain 29 *Republic of Ireland 21 *EU (other) 5 *Other country 9 Ethnic Group (C 2011) *White 948 *Asian 2 *Mixed/multiple 1 Religion (C 2011) *Roman Catholic 703 *Christian (other) 141 *Other religion 11 *No religion 34 Main Language (C 2011) *English 895 *Polish 1 *Other language 4

Education

*St. Colman's Primary School: Founded in the 20th Century

Sport

*Lawrencetown is home to Tullylish GAA club, which was formed in July 1944 and originally called 'St Patrick's GAA club' *Tullylish Running Club: Formed in 2017 by Shauna Corbett *Lawrencetown also had a football team called "Lawrencetown Celtic" c.1920

References

External links

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Tullylish GAA Club
{{authority control Villages in County Down Civil parish of Tullylish