23rd August 2017. Limerick (population 100,000) is the biggest centre of population in south west Ireland. I took the Cork train from Dublin and got off at Limerick Junction, confusingly named platforms that are actually in County Tipperary. A waiting train took me to Limerick City which is a distance of 35 kilometres.
Limerick train station is named for Con Colbert, an executed leader of the 1916 Rising.
The walk from the station is where the fircest fighting would have taken place during the 1692 siege.
The Treaty Stone is probably the place where the Treaty of Limerick was signed on 3rd October 1691 which ended the Siege when the Jacobites surrendered to the Williamite Forces.
Richard Harris, actor who was born in Limerick. The statue depicts him in the role of King Arthur in “Camelot”.
Broadcaster “Sir” Terry Wogan was born in Limerick. Went “native” when he joined BBC rising thru the ranks of the British establishment to become a Knight of their realm.
Dockers.
Easter 1916 Memorial.
Anthony (Axel) Foley, rugby player.
Michael Hogan, writer.
Jacobite Celtic Cross Memorial.
Patrick Sarsfield.
A real feeling of history all around that these bridges and (then) streets were the scene of fierce fighting during the Siege.
This modernised Tower is at Thomond Bridge, opposite King Johns Castle.
Ireland: The Final Frontier 