Limerick, a fine big county is the fourth largest city in Ireland. Here you will find a variety of pubs featuring traditional Irish music, some of them serve food and others have night clubs attached where you can dance the night away. Limerick (Hotels, Limerick, Ireland) is unlike many other counties, has a great sense of humour and is steeped in history.
There are not many dolmens in Limerick (Holiday Cottages, Limerick, Ireland), but the series of megalithic monuments at Loch Gur make the prehistoric remains of this county of interest. Loch Gur is a picturesquely situated lake about 3 miles north of Bruff. It appears to have been the centre of a Bronze-Age cemetery. The lake itself was probably sacred, and it is likely that the large number of antiquities that have been found in or near it were deposited as votive offerings. The remains include nine stone circles, a dolmen, an alignment or avenue of stones, and numerous pillar stones. At the east side of the lake is a hill called Knockadoon ; at the northern end of this is a mediaeval castle called Bourchiers Castle, and at the southern another, known as the Black Castle. The district belonged to the Desmonds, and legends connected with this family are still told by the country people. The largest of the stone circles is some 150 feet in diameter and is flanked by an earthen bank. Several of the stones which form it arc of great size, but it was repaired during the last century, and it is unfortunately impossible to say whether all the stones are now in their original position.
The ecclesiastical remains at Adare, Co. Limerick, arc picturesque and interesting. Situated close to Adare Manor, the seat of the Earl of Dunravcn. they consist of the ruins of three monasteries : one founded for Trinitarian Friars, another for Augustinian Hermits, and the third for Franciscan Friars Observant. The Trinitarian monastery was founded in 1230 a.d. ; the present remains consist of the church, and one wall of the buildings which composed the north side of the cloister, with a large tower at the western end, and a smaller one at the eastern end. The church has a nave, chancel and north transept, and a square central tower, with an embattled roof, at the junction of the nave and chancel. The north transept was lengthened and converted into a convent schoolroom in the last century. The church was repaired, enlarged, and the chancel rebuilt in 1852. Near it is an interesting low dovecot of circular form with a conical stone roof.
The Shannon becomes tidal at Limerick, and, widening into a great estuary, enters the Atlantic 60 miles further on, its mouth being 10 miles wide. The upper reaches are river-like and muddy. Here Scirpus triqneter grows in abundance, a very rare plant, un- known elsewhere in Ireland, and in England found only in three southern estuaries. It is accompanied by Nasiuriium sylvestre, Cochlearia anglica, Typha an- gustifolia (all very local in Ireland), Scirpus Taber- nasmoniani, S. mariiimus and Piragmifes communis. The adjoining marshy meadows yield Allium vmeale, Leucojum csstivum, Carex riparia, Hordeum secalinnm, md other plants in abundance. The middle parts of the estuary are island-studded, with gravelly or muddy shores. Here we find quantities of Glyceria festucae- formis, a Mediterranean grass elsewhere known only Tom Co. Down, and G. Fonecudi, found elsewhere only in S.E. England and France ; also such plants as Apium graveolens, (Enanlhe Lachenalii, Artemisia mari- oima, Sfatice rariflora, Beta maritima. The lower part )f the estuary assumes the form of an open sea-inlet with rocky and sandy shores, yielding Glaucinm flavum, Raphanus maritimzis, Spergnlaria rupestris, Crithmum naritimum, Euphorbia porilandica, and other species of similar habitat.
Around Limerick (Self Catering, Limerick, Ireland) and extending south-eastwards for some 20 miles is a large area in which is displayed abundant evidence of volcanic activity during Car- boniferous times. The lavas and ashes have resisted the action of the weather better than the limestone which envelops them, and thus they form a series of low hills which are rendered conspicuous because of the flatness of the surrounding country. The old castle of Carrigogunnel, 5 miles west of the city, stands on one of these igneous masses. Caherconlish is another large exposure, whilst about Pallas Grean and Herbertstown they are developed in an almost continuous zone. The Carboniferous rocks may be divided into four groups. Given in order, the earliest being below, they are :
Limerick, a county of Ireland, province of Munster, bounded N by the Shannon which separates it from Clare, S by Cork, NE and E by Tipperary, and W by Kerry. Its principal rivers are the Maig, Feale, Gale, and Blackwater. It sends 2 members to parliament. The majority of the county of Limerick (Self Catering, Limerick, Ireland) is taken over by a limestone plain known as Golden Vale. The renowned Ardagh Chalice was found in West Limerick in a ring fort. The number of Castles in Limerick (Accommodation, Limerick, Ireland) exceeds any other county in Ireland.
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