Laurencekirk is a town in the historical county of Kincardineshire, Scotland, just off the A90 Dundee to Aberdeen main road, which bypassed it in 1985. It is provided as part of Aberdeenshire. It is the largest settlement in the Howe o' the Mearns location and also houses the local secondary school; Mearns Academy, which was granted the Charter Mark in 2003. Its old name was Conveth, an anglification of the Gaelic Coinmheadh, referring to a commitment to give cost-free food and also board to passing troops. Laurencekirk is in the valley between capital of Garvock as well as the Cairn O' Mount. The popular landmark of the Johnston Tower can be seen on the height of the Garvock. Laurencekirk was, in the past, understood for making snuff boxes with an unique kind of impermeable joint (known as a "Laurencekirk joint") designed by James Sandy. Laurencekirk Golf Club (now obsolete) first showed up in the very early 1900s. The club closed at the time of WW2. Lewis Grassic Gibbon wrote much about The Mearns as well as the surrounding location in his publication Sunset Song. A homage centre can be seen at Arbuthnott a few miles from Laurencekirk. Fred Urquhart worked on the land at Laurencekirk in the 2nd World War, as well as his short stories use his observations of country life here.