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Limerick

Limerick (Irish: Luimneach: Lom na nEach - he bare place - i.e. open ground - of the horses) is a city and the county seat of County Limerick in the province of Munster, in the midwest of the Republic of Ireland. The city lies on the River Shannon, with three main crossing points near the city centre.

The city dates from at least the Viking settlement in 812, but study suggests the presence of earlier settlements in the area. The Normans redesigned the city in the 12th century and added much of the most notable architecture, such as King John's Castle and St Mary's Cathedral. During the civil wars of the 17th century, the city played a pivotal role, besieged by Oliver Cromwell in 1651 and twice by the Williamites in the 1690s. Limerick grew rich through trade in the late 18th century, but the Act of Union in 1800, and the famine caused a crippling economic decline broken only by the so-called Celtic Tiger in the 1990s. The Waterford and Limerick Railway linked the city to the Dublin-Cork main line in 1848 and to Waterford in 1853. The opening of a number of secondary railways in the 1850's and 1860's developed Limerick as a regional centre of communications.

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick

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  • Dell EMF1, ealle (guest) wrote 9 years ago:
    Yes, it was one of the Atari's plants. A stone with "Atari" inscribed on it can still be found on the site.
  • Athlantic Homecare, ealle (guest) wrote 9 years ago:
    The store was closed years ago. There is nothing there at the moment.
  • Chadwicks, Geoff (guest) wrote 11 years ago:
    This business has gone bust.
  • Rathbane, Louise (guest) wrote 12 years ago:
    I lived at number 2 Rathbane Road until i was 8, my grandparents lived at 1 Elm Place then, 4 Elm Place, i had a very happy childhood, with great memories growing up here. Even coming back on holidays we always got a great reception, and the children would play with us like we had never left. The worst my grandfather ever said of the the place was when he lived at 1 Elm PLace, and the kids would sit up on the wall in his front garden and chat too loudly of an evening, that and no longer being able to manage the larger garden was behind him moving to number 4. Well if thats the worst it was then some folks have lead very quite sheltered lives....lucky you ;) The area wasn't the poshest, but the people would give you the bread out of their mouths, what people had they shared, and you knew you could always knock a neighbours door in need. Don't know many places like that today.
  • Southend, from ere (guest) wrote 12 years ago:
    for all you people, who write bad things abt this place obviously havent lived, or spent a minute in this area to get to knw anybody.typical .......its a great place were alot of kids grew up in and have had great memorys there and a lot of very educated and descent successful people come frm or still live there you would know that if u actually took the time to find out urself instead ul believe everything u hear loltypical.....AnyWay this is a a football club which is ran vgood by descent bunch of lads for almost 7 decades...and the clubs field is open to the public were kids play freely
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