County Limerick, highlighted.
Choose from topics below for stories of people, families, events and places connected to County Limerick’s past.
Vanishing Ireland (Limerick people)
- Jack Conolly (1916-2013) – Farmer of Glin
- Paddy Faley (1919-2011) – Poet, Ganger & Farmer of Glenbawn, Ballyhahill
- Maurice Fitzgerald (1919-2012) – Farmer of Glin
- Mikie Kinnane (1932-2020) – Farmer of Glenagragara
- Den Lane (1923–2023) Turf Dealer of Glin
Liza Mulvihill (1915-2015) – Dairymaid & Cook of Moyavne, County Kerry- Seamus Vaughan (1922-2013) – Clothes Merchant and Turf Cutter
Pubs of County Limerick
- Dick Macks, Dingle
- Curran’s, Dingle
- Finucane, Ballylongford
County Limerick – Family Histories
- Crosbie of Abbeydorney
- Gough of Woodstown
- Ievers of Athlacca
- Ievers of Glanduff Castle
- Maunsell, bankers, Limerick City
- MacCarthys of Munster
- Musgrave of Cahirnarry
- Parsons of Cragbeg (Craigbeg), referenced here.
- Quin of Adare
- Wyndham-Quin, Earl of Dunraven
County Limerick – Places
- Adare Manor
- PJ Guerin (The Kingfisher) of Castleconnell
- O’Shaughnessy’s (The Ivy House) of Glin
- Limerick City
- Limerick Junction
- Castleconnell
County Limerick – Books by Turtle
People connected to County Limerick
- Richard Boyle (1566–1643) – The Great Earl of Cork
- Thomas Burgh (1670-1730) – Engineer Extraordinaire
- Colonel Henry Ievers (1696-1758)
- Colonel John Augustin Ievers (1737 – 1791)
- Tenducci: The Italian Castrato & His Irish Wife
- Honest Tom Steele (1788-1848) – Landlord and Repealer
- Thomas Bunbury, Bishop of Limerick
- Lola Montez and the King of Bavaria
- George Maurice Ievers (1850-1908) of Balinagarde
- Hugh Gough – Of Opium Wars & the Punjabi Sikhs
- Mary Spring Rice (1880-1924)
- Mae Coughlin (1897-1986) – The Limerick family of Al Capone’s Wife
- Brendan Bracken (1901-1958) – Churchill’s Faithful Chela
- Squadron Leader Norman Ievers (1912-1993)
- Bill Harrington, 11th Earl of Harrington (1922-2009)
Articles with a Limerick Connection
- Mesolithic Limerick
- A Short History of Irish Gold
- The Forgotten Cult of St John the Baptist
- Vikings on Irish Waterways
- The Normans on the Irish Waterways
- The Cistercian Order in Ireland
- Rise & Fall of the Knights Templar – The Irish Experience
- The Palatines in Ireland
- Ireland’s Wine Geese
- Corrupt Banking in Victorian Ireland
- The Christmas Truce, 1914 – An Irish Perspective
- An Interview with Bill Harrington, 2005
- Maxol – The History of an Irish Family Company
- Ferenka Steel and Dr Tiede Herrema
- Waterways Through Time