Architecture of Limerick City

1839 – Tontine Terrace, Pery Square, Limerick

This terrace in Pery Square was built in 1838, and is one of the finest example of Georgian architecture in the city.

1840 – Toll House, Limerick

This humourous Gothic Style folly with exaggerated crenellations was designed and built by the architect James Pain around 1840.

1841 – Limerick Union Workhouse

Architect: George Wilkinson

Designed to replace the city`s overcrowded poorhouase, the new workhouse of 1841 was designed by George Wilkinson on an 11-acre site to the north-west of the city.

1844 – St Michael’s Church of Ireland, Limerick

Architect: James Pain / William Fogerty

Prior to the construction of this fine Gothic church, there was an earlier Georgian church constructed with the development of Newtown Pery (the Georgian area of Limerick).

1845 – Leamy House, Upper Hartstonge St., Limerick, Co. Limerick

Architect: William Atkins

Selected after an architectural competition, Atkins’s designs for the former Leamy School are in a Tudor Revival style with a central crenellated tower.

1854 – Lansdowne Flax Mill / Cleeve’s, Limerick

Constructed as the Lansdowne Spinning and Weaving factory between 1851-54 for John Norris Russell. The buildings cost in the region of £80,000 and were designed to employ 6,000 workers.

1856 – Protestant Orphan Society Hall, Limerick

Architect: William Fogerty

Published in The Builder, January 19, 1856. Two storey collegiate gothic orphanage now converted into offices.

1858 – Cannock, Tait and Co. Department Store, Limerick

Architect: William Fogerty

Part of the building was constructed in 1858 and described in The Irish Builder, February 1 1859: “Messrs.

1858 – Railway Station, Limerick, Co. Limerick

Architect: Sancton Wood

Opened on the 28th of August 1858 replacing an earlier, temporary station some 500m further east,

1860s – McBirney & Co., Limerick

McBirney’s Drapery Emporium which was taken over by Roches Stores in the 1940’s, but the building was burned to the ground in a disastrous fire in 1948