Limerick

Limerick is a city in in the of Ireland, with a population of about 102,000 in 2022. It's a miniature Dublin with its Georgian streets, historic sights, and many visitor amenities, and is a good base for visiting its surrounding county plus and .
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  • Type: City with 58,300 residents
  • Description: city in Ireland in the province of Munster
  • Also known as: “Limerick city”, “Limerick City”, “Limmerick”, “Limrick”, and “Luimneach”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Limerick Colbert railway station and Hunt Museum.

Railway station
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Limerick railway station also known as Colbert Station or Limerick Colbert serves the city of Limerick in County Limerick, Ireland. It is on Parnell Street and is the main station on the Limerick Suburban Rail network.

Museum
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The is a museum located in the Custom House in the city of Limerick, . It holds a personal collection donated by the Hunt family, it was originally situated in the University of Limerick, before being moved to its present location in Limerick's Georgian custom house in 1997.

Church
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Saint Mary's Cathedral, Limerick, is a cathedral of the in Limerick, Ireland, which is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is in the ecclesiastical province of Dublin.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dooradoyle and Caherdavin.

Suburb
is a large suburb of Limerick, . It is one of Limerick's newer suburbs, and is home to the campus of and the Crescent Shopping Centre.

Suburb
is a northern suburban district of Limerick city in the mid-west of . As of 2022, the population of was 7,364. It is around 2.5 km west of the city centre.

Suburb
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is a large suburb of Limerick, . Initially developed to ease population overspill from the city of Limerick, is socioeconomically diverse, ranging from older, poor-class housing estates to relatively affluent areas.

Limerick

Latitude
52.6613° or 52° 39′ 41″ north
Longitude
-8.6301° or 8° 37′ 48″ west
Population
58,300
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
IATA airport code
LMK
United Nations Location Code
IE LMK
Open location code
9C4HM969+GX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 428339453
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2962943
Wiki­data ID
Q133315
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Limerick” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Limerick”
  • Arabic: “ليمريك”
  • Aragonese: “Luimneach”
  • Armenian: “Լիմերիկ”
  • Asturian: “Limerick”
  • Azerbaijani: “Limerik”
  • Basque: “Limerick”
  • Belarusian: “Лімерык”
  • Belarusian: “Лімэрык”
  • Bengali: “লিমেরিক”
  • Breton: “Limerick”
  • Breton: “Limnac’h”
  • Breton: “Luimneach”
  • Bulgarian: “Лимерик”
  • Catalan: “Limerick”
  • Catalan: “Luimneach”
  • Cebuano: “Limerick City”
  • Cebuano: “Luimneach”
  • Chinese: “利麥立克”
  • Chinese: “利默里克”
  • Chinese: “林默里克”
  • Cornish: “Lymryk”
  • Croatian: “Limerick”
  • Croatian: “Luimneach”
  • Czech: “Limerick”
  • Czech: “Limerik”
  • Czech: “Luimneach”
  • Danish: “Limereick”
  • Danish: “Limerick”
  • Danish: “Luimneach”
  • Dutch: “Limerick”
  • Dutch: “Luimneach”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليمريك”
  • Esperanto: “Limerick”
  • Esperanto: “Luimneach”
  • Estonian: “Limerick”
  • Estonian: “Luimneach”
  • Faroese: “Limerick”
  • Finnish: “Limerick”
  • French: “Limerick”
  • Galician: “Limerick”
  • Galician: “Luimneach”
  • Georgian: “ლიმერიკი”
  • German: “Limerick”
  • German: “Limmerick”
  • Greek: “Λίμερικ”
  • Gujarati: “લિમરિક”
  • Gujarati: “લિમેરિક”
  • Hebrew: “לימריק”
  • Hindi: “लिमरिक”
  • Hungarian: “Limerick”
  • Iban: “Limerick”
  • Icelandic: “Hlymrek”
  • Icelandic: “Limerick”
  • Ido: “Limerick”
  • Indonesian: “Limerick”
  • Interlingua: “Limerick”
  • Interlingue: “Limerick”
  • Irish: “Cathair Luimní”
  • Irish: “Cathair Luimnigh”
  • Irish: “Luimneach”
  • Italian: “Limerick”
  • Japanese: “リムリック”
  • Japanese: “リムリック市”
  • Kannada: “ಲಿಮರಿಕ್”
  • Kannada: “ಲಿಮೆರಿಕ್”
  • Korean: “리머릭”
  • Latin: “Limericum”
  • Latvian: “Limerick”
  • Latvian: “Limerika”
  • Latvian: “Luimneach”
  • Lithuanian: “Limerick”
  • Lithuanian: “Limerikas”
  • Low German: “Limerick”
  • Luxembourgish: “Limerick”
  • Malay: “Limerick”
  • Malayalam: “ലിംറിക്”
  • Malayalam: “ലുമെറിക് നഗരം”
  • Maltese: “Limerick”
  • Manx: “Limerick”
  • Manx: “Limmeragh”
  • Manx: “Luimneach”
  • Marathi: “लिमरिक”
  • Mingrelian: “ლიმერიკ სიტი”
  • Mingrelian: “ლიმერიკი”
  • Moksha: “Лимэрик”
  • Mongolian: “Лимерик”
  • Nauru: “Limerick”
  • Nauru: “Limerik”
  • Northern Frisian: “Limerick”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Limerick City”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Limerick”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Limerick”
  • Norwegian: “Limerick”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Limerick”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hlimwīċ”
  • Ossetian: “Лимерик”
  • Persian: “لمرک”
  • Persian: “لیمرک”
  • Persian: “لیمریک”
  • Piemontese: “Limerick”
  • Polish: “Limerick”
  • Polish: “Luimneach”
  • Portuguese: “Limerick”
  • Romanian: “Limerick”
  • Russian: “Лимерик”
  • Sardinian: “Limerick”
  • Scots: “Limerick”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Baile Luimní”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Luimneach”
  • Serbian: “Limerick”
  • Serbian: “Limerik”
  • Serbian: “Град Лимерик”
  • Serbian: “Лимерик”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Limerick”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Limerik”
  • Silesian: “Limerick”
  • Sinhala: “ලිමරික්”
  • Sinhala: “ලිමෙරික්”
  • Slovak: “Limerick”
  • Slovenian: “Limerick”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Limerick”
  • Spanish: “Limerick”
  • Swahili: “Limerick”
  • Swedish: “City of Limerick”
  • Swedish: “Limerick City”
  • Swedish: “Limerick”
  • Swedish: “Luimneach”
  • Tamil: “லிமரிக்”
  • Tatar: “Лимерик”
  • Telugu: “లిమారిక్”
  • Thai: “ลิมริก”
  • Thai: “ลิเมอริก”
  • Tumbuka: “Limerick”
  • Turkish: “Limerick”
  • Ukrainian: “Лімерик”
  • Ukrainian: “Лімерік”
  • Urdu: “لیمرک”
  • Uzbek: “Limerik”
  • Veps: “Limerik”
  • Vietnamese: “Limerick”
  • Volapük: “Luimneach”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Limerick”
  • Welsh: “Limerick”
  • Welsh: “Luimneach”
  • Western Frisian: “Limmerik”
  • Wu Chinese: “利默里克”
  • Yue Chinese: “利麥立克”
  • “Limerick”

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