‘The most important publication on the city’s history since 1866’

A MAJOR publication on the history of Limerick was launched in the city’s Georgian Quarter last night by Mayor Kevin Kiely.

Limerick, the newly published atlas in the Irish Historic Towns Atlas Series, features illustrations, plans and accounts of the city. The collection includes three Elizabethan maps from about 1590, which pre-date Dublin’s earliest known map by 20 years.

The lanes of Limerick so pertinent to Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes have long since disappeared, but are preserved in the atlas with unusual lane names of Spreadeagle, Scabby, Red Lion, White Wine or Bear Lane.