Demolished in 1988 to facilitate the construction of the new City Council headquarters. Blackburn was a London architect and pioneer of radial planning in prison design.
In the second volume of his Original Designs in Architecture, published in 1797, James Lewis wrote “Plan of the Market and Store Houses,
Recently renovated with much work carried out on the interior and the exterior restored. While the building envelope retained much of its original form from this period,
Built in 1827 on the site of the original St Munchin’s church replacing a medieval church.
Built as a Church of Ireland chapel for a nearby Asylum for Blind Women. The money for construction was raised in Ireland and England by Rev.
When completed in 1835 after 11 years of construction, it was named Wellesley Bridge. The Limerick Bridge Commissioners were incorporated for the purpose of erecting the bridge and a floating dock under the Act of 1823 entitled ‘An Act for the erection of a bridge across the River Shannon and of a floating dock to accommodate sharp vessels frequenting the port of Limerick’.
The current seven-arch bridge was built in 1836, replacing the earlier bridge which was also alongside King John’s Castle.
Designed as a pawn service for the poor of Limerick by Matthew Barrington, who also founded the hospital alongside,
Former branch of the Provincial Bank of Ireland, which later after a series of mergers became AIB.
Originally built as the Limerick Savings Bank; now after a series of bank amalgamations and closures,
