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Entrance Gate to Lisreaghan 2

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Family Tree

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Constructed from Lawrence Family Album.

John Lawrence 1698-1730

John Lawrence of Lisreaghan or Belvue, Lawrencetown, Co. Galway, elder brother of Admiral, Sir Peter Lawrence, son of Walter Lawrence, who died, 1706, Grandson of Walter Lawrence, and Cicely, his wife, daughter of Co. Garrett Moore, of Cloghan Caste, Kings County, by her mother, Lady Margaret De Burgh, daughter of Richard 6th Earl of Clanricarde, by her mother, Lady Elizabeth Butler, daughter of Walter 11th, Earl of Ormond, great grandson of John Lawrence of Ballymore Castle, County of Galway, and Mary, his wife, daughter of Garrett McCoghlan, hereditary Lord of Delvin, dynast of Lower Delvin, Kings County, by her mother, Lady Honora Burke, sister of Ulick, Great Marquis and fifth Earl of Clanricarde and St. Albans, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1650, great great grandson of Walter Lawrence of Ballymore Castle, County Galway and Cecily, his wife, daughter of Sir John Moore, of Brieze, Co. Mayo and Cloghan Castle, Kings County by his wife, Lady Mary Burke, daughter of Richard 2nd Earl of Clanricrade, (See Patent Rolls 16 James the First and Patent Rolls of Charles the Second). Transcribed from the Lawrence Family Album.

Gothic Room - Portion of Ceiling

This ceiling is divided into panels and all round may be seen the Armorial bearings of the various families, into which the Lawrence family intermarried, during the last five hundred years. This room was occupied by his Royal Highness, afterwards George the Fourth during his visits between the years 1780 and '90. Transcribed from the Lawrence Family Album.

Edgeworth Family Tree

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Library Ceiling - Centre

A female figure in the centre of the oval holding a book in her hand with a swan at her feet was Olivia Emily, sister of Lord Riverstone, Great grand Aunt of the present Earl of Westmeath Pallas, County Galway and great Grandmother of the present Sir Henry Grattan Bellew Bart., Mountbellew, County Galway. Transcribed from the Lawrence Family Album.

Italian Drawing Room

This photograph shows a portion of the ceiling designed by Col. Walter Lawrence and executed by Italian artists during the last half of the last century. Transcribed from the Lawrence Family Album.

Unspecified Fresco

A fresco on the right hand panel in the Aurora Hall, at Lawrencetown, County Galway, 1760, twenty feet long by fifteen feet high. Transcribed from the Lawrence Family Album.

Oil Painting Representing the Belvue or Lawrencetown Volunteers

This photograph represents the Volunteer Review held at Woodfield near Birr, Kings County on the 20th, September, 1784. General De Burgh brother of Henry 12th Earl of Clanricarde in seen on horseback, near him also in life size is Peter Banon a Halberdier showing the costume of country men of that time. In the distance are three Officers in the Austrian uniform, the tall figure on the left hand side is Col. Walter Lawrence born, 1729, died, 1796, the figure in the centre is Major Peter Lawrence the only son of the former by his first marriage, born, 1762, died, 1790, the third figure on the right hand side is Adjutant Lennon, in the centre is an allegorical group representing the Union England, Ireland and Scotland, to the extreme right of the picture are two female figures and a peasant in his native costume. The right hand figure in the allegorical group, representing Ireland, is draped in green, under her head is a harp suspended from a tree, the lady who sat in the group was Mrs. Lawrence, second wife of Col. Walter Lawrence, by her mother, Margaret D'Arcy, widow of Charles Blake, of Moyne, daughter of Denis Daly, of Raford, and Lady Ann, his wife, eldest daughter of Michael 10th Earl of Clanricarde; the female figure on the left hand side, is, her sister, Mrs. Naughton, of Thomastown, Co. Roscommon. The centre figure representing England, with a crown, and the hand of an Angel lifting the veil from off her head, and a lion recumbent at her fee, with its paw on a cannon ball, was Olivia Emily, sister of Lord Riverston, Great Grant Aunt of the present Earl of Westmeath and great Grandmother of the present Sir Henry Grattan Bellew, Bart., Mountbellew, Co. Galway. Transcribed from the Lawrence Family Album.

Library Ceiling - East End

A portion of the Ceiling, at the Eastern end of the Room, the work of Italian Artists, during the last half of the last century. This room is about eighty feet in length. Transcribed from the Lawrence Family Album.