City’s coat of arms to replace ‘unregistered’ crest

AN official City of Limerick coat of arms will be unveiled later this month after it was discovered the current official crest is unregistered.

The Office of the Chief Herald designed the coat of arms and chief herald Fergus Gillespie will read the proclamation in Irish and in English at a ceremony in City Hall, on Thursday, May 28.

Mayor John Gilligan said: “The original coat of arms for the city, which has been used since at least the seventeenth century, was unregistered and so unprotected from unofficial use. So we applied on behalf of the council to the Chief Herald of Ireland to confirm the council in its right to arms on the basis of long use.”