Limerick c. 840 to c. 1900: Viking longphort to Victorian city

This is an ancillary publication to the enthusiastically received volume on Limerick by Eamon OFlaherty. A transportable booklet that lends itself to strolling the city, enclosed is a large fold-out map capturing 264 sites over 1000 years of the citys history. Streets are colour coded to show the development of the city from a conjectural Viking settlement, to the vast rectilinear network of streets and warrens of lanes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Limericks walls and defences are illustrated alongside the principal topographical sites ranging from St Marys Cathedral, ball alleys, bacon manufactories and Turkish baths, to schools, prisons, tower houses, markets and monuments. An introductory essay is included in the booklet that is intended to give readers a full flavour of Limericks past. Many of the sites documented are no longer extant, but will enlighten anyones interest in the citys multilayered past. This is ancillary publication to Irish Historic Towns Atlas, no. 21, Limerick, by Eamon O'Flaherty. Authors: Eamon O'Flaherty, Jennifer Moore; Cartography: Sarah Gearty Series editors: Anngret Simms, H.B. Clarke, Raymond Gillespie, Jacinta Prunty; Consultant editor: J.H. Andrews; Cartographic editor: Sarah Gearty; Editorial assistants: Angela Murphy, Jennifer Moore, Anne Rosenbusch See more