This former 18C customs house displays the remarkable collection of John and Gertrude Hunt, experts in religious and medieval art. Among the masterpieces is a carved wood sculpture of Apollo god of the arts, a little equestrian bronze attributed to L..

The oldest building in Limerick, the Anglican Cathedral was built in 1168 by a King of Munster, Dónall Mòr O'Brien, on King's Island in the River Shannon. Parts of the king's palace have been incorporated in the original church (formerly cruciform) b..

This group of six Georgian houses, opposite People's Park, are the epitome of the Newtown Pery district, built by the Pery Tontine Company in 1838. One of the houses has been skillfully restored and stands as a splendid testimonial to Georgian archit..

The museum retraces the city's history, particularly the late 19C and early 20C. A very substantial collection of 18C silver objects recalls a now-defunct Limerick craft. The specimens of tambour, needlepoint and tape lace are testimonials to the lac..

This square was designed in 1751. It is uniformly surrounded on three sides by three-storey houses with simple limestone façades embellished with shouldered architraves on main entrances and plain architraves on red-brick niches. Originally these hou..

This Catholic church was built in 1861 in neo-Gothic style. It is located on the southern fringe of the old Irish town. The 85m spire, completed in 1883, is the tallest in Ireland. The earliest mention of a church on this site was in 1205, when Bisho..

This two-storey art gallery, formerly Carnegie Library, sits on the edge of People's Park. Visitors can see a permanent collection of established Irish painters like Sean Keating, Jack B. Yeats and Evie Hone. The museum frequently organises temporary..

The famous Treaty of Limerick is said to have been signed on this limestone block in 1691. It had originally been set on the opposite side of the road, in front of the Black Bull public house. After suffering much damage at the hands of souvenir hunt..

A notable example of fortified Norman architecture, King John's Castle was built between 1200 and 1216, and guards Thomond Bridge on the east bank of the River Shannon. It has no keep. However, massive round towers reinforce the gate and the curtain ..

The oldest surviving dwelling in Limerick, this house was designed in the Palladian style by Francis Bindon, a native of Limerick (c.1690-1765). Today, it houses the Limerick Civil Trust.

Limerick is unusual among Irish towns in possessing two sets of almshouses, north and south of the castle. Villiers Almshouses, created in 1826 for 12 poor Protestant widows, were designed by James Pain to form three sides of a courtyard in the Bisho..

English lacemakers introduced this traditional craft around 1820. At its peak in the 19C, the local factory employed around 900 young girls. Celtic motifs were picked out in a fine or thicker thread - depending on the design - on a machine-woven cott..