Limerick Genealogy

08/11/2025

1830s drawing of Limerick by French artist Alphonse Dousseau.

03/11/2025

Latest book 366 Days of Limerick has just landed. Not in shops just yet. Copies will be sent to Limerick schools and nursing homes first. If you are involved with a school or nursing home, please get in touch!

01/11/2025

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31/10/2025

For those interested in estate records

Records compiled by land agents can reveal intimate details about tenants' personal lives and that of their extended communities

28/10/2025

Well done to Mike Hennessy on your work on Canon Edward Hannan of Ballingarry county Limerick, founder of Hibernian FC.

25/09/2025

23/09/2025

Another that wasn't in the Ormond Historical Societies inscription for Burgessbeg graveyard as far as I can see.

“Here lies the Body of Dennis O’Brien Esq of Newcastle of the Liberties of Limerick who dept this life the ?th of May ? Aged 76.”

Again this only reiterates why graveyards need to be resurveyed / visited when carrying out historical / genealogical research.

https://skfb.ly/pBunG

13/09/2025

05/09/2025

25/07/2025

Regarded as a seminal volume on the history and archaeology of Limerick and North Munster, the celebrated 'North Munster Studies', edited by Etienne Rynne, is now available in digitised form on the Limerick Local Studies website 👇

https://limericklocalstudies.ie/newly-digitised-book-the-celebrated-north-munster-studies-now-available/

20/07/2025

This soon to be launched book on Limerick born Fr Edward Joseph Hannan will be a fascinating read. Well done Mike Hennessy.

ORDER NOW IN ADVANCE OF 6 AUGUST PUBLICATION DATE SIGNED COPIES CAN BE COLLECTED AT ST PATRICK’S CHURCH, COWGATE ON 6TH AUGUST - THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF HIBERNIAN FC (SEE STORE PICK-UP WHEN PURCHASING) Without this Irish priest’s work with the Old Town poor all those years a