When the walls came down.
From the 1760s, sections of Limerick's medieval walls were removed as the city expanded. Edmund Sexton Pery promoted a new city to the south, creating the planned Georgian landscape associated with Newtown Pery.
Beyond the Fairways · Limerick & Adare
Georgian Limerick
County Limerick · A planned eighteenth-century city
Architecture as history
The Georgian streets are evidence of a major change in how Limerick was organised, lived in and connected to the wider economy of eighteenth-century Ireland.
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