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	Limerick, Ireland (County) - LoveToKnow 1911
		LIMERICK, a western county of Ireland, in the province of Munster, bounded N. by the estuary of the Shannon and the counties of Clare and Tipperary, E. by Tipperary, S. by Cork and W. by Kerry.
		Limerick includes the greater part of the Golden Vale, the most fertile district of Ireland, which stretches from Cashel in Tipperary nearly to the town of Limerick.
		Assizes are held at Limerick, and quarter-sessions at Bruff, Limerick, Newcastle and Rathkeale.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Limerick%2C_Ireland_%28County%29 (927 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Earl of Limerick
		Earl of Limerick is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland.
		Lord Limerick sat in the House of Lords as one of the 28 original Irish Representative Peers from 1800 to 1844.
		His great-grandson, the third Earl, was a Conservative politician and served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard from 1889 to 1892 and from 1895 to 1896.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Earl_of_Limerick (629 words)

	Lewis's Topographical Directory of Ireland, 1837, Limerick - Buildings of Ireland [Archeire, Irish Architecture Online]
		In 1331, the Earl of Desmond was committed to the custody of the Marshal of Limerick.
		John’s parish is a vicarage, in the patronage of the Earl of Limerick.
		Limerick anciently contained two Augustinian monasteries, one of the regular canons, and the other of hermits: the regular canons had another house in the contiguous parish of Mungrett, which was destroyed by the Danes in 1107.
	www.irish-architecture.com /buildings_ireland/limerick/limerick/lewis.html (8241 words)

	Limerick History
		Limerick (Luimneach, a bare spot of land) : the See of Limerick is generally considered to have been founded as early as the fifth century.
		Limerick is unique amongst the Irish cathedrals in possessing carved wood- work of the fifteenth century ; its stalls, with carved misereres, ornamented with various grotesque devices, resemble those which have been preserved in many English cathedrals.
		The modern mansion of the Earl of Dunravcn is an imposing structure in the Tudor style; it was built in 1850 of limestone obtained from the district.
	www.travelinireland.com /county/limerick/limerick_history_architecture.htm (590 words)

	The Earl of Limerick - Telegraph
		The 6th Earl of Limerick, who has died aged 72, was an outstanding servant of and ambassador for the City of London.
		Off-duty, Limerick was a passionate mountaineer (he was vice-president of the Alpine Club) and a brilliant skier, serving as president of the Ski Club of Great Britain (1974-81) and chairman of the Lords and Commons Ski Club.
		Limerick, who died on January 8, is survived by his wife and by their two sons and a daughter.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/01/14/db1401.xml (1187 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Limerick
		Limerick City on the Shannon estuary, sw Republic of Ireland; capital of Limerick county, Munster province.
		Limerick, Rising From `Ashes'; A bittersweet memoir is luring people to this once-grim Irish city.
		Obituary: The Earl of Limerick; Tailor-made chairman with an enthusiasm for mountains.(Obituaries)
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Limerick (1522 words)

	The Earl of Limerick - Independent Online Edition > Obituaries
		Patrick Limerick was a merchant banker and recreational skier-mountaineer of rarely combined talents, able to explain the benefits of the UK's invisible earnings in a five-line eponymous verse and beat the Alpine nations at their own game on the pistes of Davos.
		Patrick Limerick supported Limerick's civic trust and was guest speaker at a recent banquet celebrating the 800th anniversary of the city's charter.
		Limerick was fortunate in marrying a woman whose passion for the mountains was quickly equal to his own.
	news.independent.co.uk /people/obituaries/article36228.ece (1251 words)

	The Limerick Nightingale
		Limerick born soprano Catherine Hayes was feted the world over.
		Known as the Limerick Nightingale, her story is one of rags to riches.
		On one of these visits the Church of Ireland Bishop of Limerick Edmund Knox overheard the young songstress in the garden and was so impressed he arranged for her to sing in private houses.
	www.hoganstand.com /general/identity/extras/people/stories/limerick.htm (689 words)

	Limerick Ireland Limerick County Limerick City Information Limerick Ireland Tourist Information Limerick Attractions ...
		County Limerick is a place of quiet beauty and rural charm, offering good sport to the angler and golfer and some of the finest hunting country in Ireland.
		Much of County Limerick is low and undulating-particularly in the east, where it forms part of the rich plain known as the Golden Vale.
		The desmond banqueting hall is an imposing two-storey structure and was used by the Earls of Desmond for banqueting and entertainment.
	www.ebookireland.com /limerick.htm (815 words)

	Ireland Photos - Co. Limerick and Clare
		It was built mostly as a fort at a time when the city was divided by the River Shannon into the Irish town and the English town, seperated by a bridge that the castle guarded.
		Several buildings, such as the first stone cottages to be built in the city, have sunk beneath the ground over the many years and are now in the process of being excavated.
		First, some pictures of the village itself...the thatched cottages were built in the early 19th century and preserved by the Earl of Dunraven, the owner of the land, even when the rest of the country started using slate.
	www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~hom/ireland04/limerick/limerick.htm (709 words)

	Earl of Limerick - TheBestLinks.com - House of Lords, 1999, 1863, 1929, ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Earl of Limerick - TheBestLinks.com - House of Lords, 1999, 1863, 1929,...
		Earl of Limerick, House of Lords, 1999, 1863, 1929, 1866, 1896, 1840, 1888...
		The Earl bears the subsidiary titles of Viscount Limerick (1800) and Baron Glentworth (1790) in the Peerage of Ireland and Baron Foxford (1815) in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Earl_of_Limerick.html (238 words)

	Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy \| Christian Classics Ethereal Library
		He was the youngest son of Sir John Dongan, Baronet, Member of the Irish Parliament; an uncle, Richard Talbot, was afterwards created Earl of Tyrconnel, Lieutenant-Governor of Ireland; and another, Sir Robert, married Grace, daughter of Lord Calvert, Baron of Baltimore.
		Dongan refused command of a regiment with the rank of major-general, retired to his estate on Staten Island, New York, but was obliged to flee for safety in the religious persecution aroused by Lesler in 1689.
		By the death of his brother William (1698), late Governor of the Province of Munster, Ireland, whose only son, Colonel Walter, Lord Dongan, was killed at the battle of the Boyne, Dongan became Earl of Limerick.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/herbermann/cathen05.html?term=Thomas%20Dongan (987 words)

	A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland by Samuel Lewis
		Lanesborough gives the title of Earl to a branch of the family of Butler of Newtown, in which it was revived after it had become extinct in the family of Lane.
		In 1408, Gerald, fifth Earl of Kildare, built another fortress here, which he called White Castle; and after the dissolution the monastery was also converted into a fort and occupied as a military station by Sir Edward Bellingham, Marshal of the English army and Lord-Deputy of Ireland.
		During the rebellion of the Earl of Desmond in the reign of Elizabeth, that nobleman possessed the towns of Kilmallock, Askeaton, Rathkeale, and Newcastle, then the four chief places in the county, and the confiscation of his estates after his death caused the transfer of a considerable portion of its fertile lands to new proprietors.
	www.libraryireland.com /topog/l.php (18859 words)

	Category "Earls in the Peerage of Ireland" - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl
		Windham Quin, 2nd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl
		Category "Earls in the Peerage of Ireland", British earls and Peers of Ireland.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Category/Earls_in_the_Peerage_of_Ireland (231 words)

	St Saviour's Church
		Edward Henry, the Earl of Limerick donated the land to the Dominicans.
		The foundation stone of the church was laid on 27 March 1815 in the presence of Dr Tuohy, Bishop of Limerick and the Father Provincial of the Dominicans, Patrick Gibbons.
		For a number of years, the statue was buried in a box in the graveyard in the grounds of St Mary's Cathedral to avoid capture from the English authorities.
	www.limerickdioceseheritage.org /StSaviours/chStSaviours.htm (1141 words)

	LimerickBiz - limerick-news2-feb12-06
		Environment Minister Dick Roche has acknowledged as "odd" that neither the Earl of Limerick nor a trustee of the People's Park knew a five-storey block of apartments would be built over a 0.44 acre site they disposed of to Limerick City Council.
		Minister Roche visited the city just days after the 7th Earl of Limerick, Edmund Pery, described the development as a "blight" and an "insult" to its users and made clear he would not have indicated no objection to the development had he known what was planned at the time.
		It was the third earl that bequeathed the land for the provision of a park for the people of Limerick in 1877.
	www.limerickbiz.com /limerick-news2-feb12-06.html (346 words)

	Gerald Desmond, 15th Earl
		He was especially severe against the Earl for the mismanagement of his estates, and being likewise fearful of his strong Catholic procilivities, seized him at Kilmallock, and carried him about in durance the remainder of his progress.
		They were extremely officious and insolent to the Earl, reconnoitred the fort at Smerwick, where FitzMaurice and the Spaniards were entrenched, and were on their way back to Cork, when they were murdered by Sir John in a little inn at Tralee.
		The Earl suspected FitzMaurice of trying to usurp the Earldom and actually volunteered to apprehend him and the other rebels if he were allowed to return to Ireland (See his letter dated 20 August 1571 to the Queen's Privy Council).
	members.aol.com /desmondearls/ger15.htm (3063 words)

	Limerick.com - Earl Connolly (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Earl Connolly, like his wife Callie, is Limerick to the core.
		He joined the Limerick Leader two years before the outbreak of World War 11 and his brief was extensive.
		In his early days with the Limerick Leader, his mother sent him to do a typing course in the old "Red Tech" in O'Connell Avenue, and, of course, he ended up in the Tech band playing the drums.
	www.limerick.com /lifestyle/earlconnolly.html (1135 words)

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		William, 3rd Earl was captured at Solway Moss but released in exchange for support of the marriage of Mary Queen of Scots to King Edward VI of England.
		Alexander, 5th Earl of Glencairn was a supporter of the Reformation and responsible for the destruction of the chapel at Holyrood, his Protestant sentiments fuelled the longstanding feud between the Cunninghams and the Montgomeries, Earls of Eglinton.
		From the 1st Earl's son descended the families of Craigends, Robertland and Auchinharvie, and from the Craigends family, in turn, derived the Cunynghams of Milncraig, Ayrshire, and Livingstone in West Lothian.
	lifehappens.topcities.com /familytree.html (1253 words)

	Limerick.com Generous Donation From Earl of Limerick (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Pat Daly, chairman of Limerick Civic Trust, was pleased to announce this week that the Earl of Limerick has donated 75,000 to Limerick Civic Trust.
		The Earl's intentions are that his donation would be used for the benefit of Limerick people through the Trust's programme of environmental projects.
		Daly emphasised that Limerick Civic Trust already had made a major contribution to the park by restoring the Victorian Pavilion near the Art Gallery building.
	www.limerick.com /news/archive/04/april09_06.html (368 words)

	Thomas Dongan
		He was the youngest son of Sir John Dongan, Baronet, Member of the Irish Parliament; an uncle, Richard Talbot, was afterwards created Earl of Tyrconnel, Lieutenant-Governor of Ireland; and another, Sir Robert, married Grace, daughter of Lord Calvert, Baron of Baltimore.
		Dongan refused command of a regiment with the rank of major-general, retired to his estate on Staten Island, New York, but was obliged to flee for safety in the religious persecution aroused by Lesler in 1689.
		By the death of his brother William (1698), late Governor of the Province of Munster, Ireland, whose only son, Colonel Walter, Lord Dongan, was killed at the battle of the Boyne, Dongan became Earl of Limerick.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/d/dongan,thomas.html (974 words)

	Newspaper Abstracts
		The present earl was formerly in the army, but distinguished himself more as an amateur actor than as a soldier, his most notable performance having been his presentation of "The Nurse" in his burlesque of "Romeo and Juliet," given at the Queen's Theater, Dublin, in behalf of some local charity.
		The patronymic of the Lords of Limerick is Pery, which does not prevent their claiming descent on the distaff side from the Plantagenet kings.
		His son, for supporting the act of union and for inducing the corporation and County of Limerick to do the same, was advanced to the rank, first of Viscount and then of Earl of Limerick.
	www.irelandoldnews.com /Other/1904/DEC.html (467 words)

	Ireland Guesthouses Limerick Ireland Vacation Rentals
		Limerick city, Ireland's third largest city, stands where the River Shannon becomes tidal.
		Restored in the 1820's by the Earl of Dunraven, the long narrow village street is a picture of neat stonework and thatch roofs.
		It's main focus, Limerick City, built on the river where it meets the Atlantic Ocean.
	www.irishguesthouseguide.com /limerick.htm (143 words)

	Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Her first serious romance was with Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield, but he was on the lookout for a rich wife.
		As a reward for her services, the King created her husband Baron Limerick and Earl of Castlemaine in 1661.
		Clarendon, one of the most powerful of the King's advisors, opposed her appointment as a Lady of the Bedchamber (as did, quite understandably, Catherine of Braganza, Charles's wife and Queen).
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Barbara_Villiers,_Duchess_of_Cleveland (865 words)

	William Swan CROKER
		This form of the memorandum was written out by my grandmother prior to her death in 1932 and passed down to me. There are a number of other versions of the memorandum in existance.
		Limerick; m (1) Mary WILSON 7 March 1807; m (2) c17 June 1826 Anne Jane WOLFE eldest daughter of Philpot Rogerson WOLFE (d1821) of Belcamp Cottage Balbriggan, Secretary to Board of Works.
		A transcription error for Lord GLENTWORTH son and heir of Edward Henry PERY the first Earl of Limerick and his wife Mary Alice ORMSBY daughter of Henry ORMSBY of Clogher and Mary HARTSTONGE sister of Sir Henry HARTSTONGE Bt.
	www.members.iinet.net.au /~nickred/wsc.htm (852 words)

	Avondoyle Bed & Breakfast, Limerick, Ireland - Main Page
		The architecture of Limerick is predominantly Georgian (early 1800's) in style, and modern developments are required to be consistent with this theme.
		This magnificent 15th century castle of dramatic history was once the stronghold of the O'Briens, kings and later earls of Thomond.
		Dromore Castle, the former home of the Earl of Limerick, is an Edward William Godwin designed masterpiece of Gothic architecture.
	www.iol.ie /~avondoyl/seeanddo.html (1528 words)

	Freeholders of Limerick
		Limerick, a house and land at Rhuta,George C Frend esq,40,Rt.
		Goold, William-yeoman; Ballincurra, co. city Limerick; house and garden at Ballincurra; Samuel Dickinson, esq.; Earl of Clare; November 12, 1827.
		Holahan, John-grocer; William-street, co city Limerick; house and yard at William-street; Thomas Peacocke,gent; 40; John Houlahan, Catherine O'Hara, and Eleanor Quin; October 6, 1827.
	www.celticcousins.net /ireland/freehold.htm (2288 words)

	Limerick.com - Death of Lord Limerick (Site not responding. Last check: )
		AM DL THE Earl of Limerick, Patrick Pery, who has died in a London hospital, was the sixth earl.
		Lord Limerick was a chartered accountant by profession and was also chairman of tyre giant Pirelli.
		He was last in Limerick in November for the opening of the Carroll Collection at the Georgian House in Pery Square.
	www.limerick.com /news/archive/news180103html.html (231 words)

	James, 7th Earl of Desmond (Site not responding. Last check: )
		DESMOND, JAMES, 7TH EARL, uncle of preceding, son of the 4th Earl, surnamed "James the Usurper." One of the chief instruments in compelling his nephew's exile, he seized his estates, but was not generally acknowledged as Earl until 1422.
		He and the Earl of Ormond were godfathers to George, afterwards Duke of Clarence.
		By the Earl of Ormond he was appointed Seneschal of Imokelly, Inchiquin, and Youghal, and founded the monastery of Franciscans at Askeaton.
	members.aol.com /desmondearls/jas7.htm (245 words)

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