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Recorded monument · LI005-017082 · Co. Limerick

Battery at IRISHTOWN,Limerick City, Co. Limerick (LI005-017082)

On the Sites and Monuments Record.

191 planning applications in the last 10 years fall inside this monument’s zone of notification, and 22 An Coimisiún Pleanála cases touch it.

191
in the zone, 10 years
191
in the zone, all years
22
ACP cases in the zone
7
within 100 m, 10 years

Zone of notification 75.57 ha

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Planning applications in the zone of notification 191 applications in the last 10 years

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Appeals in the zone of notification 22 with An Coimisiún Pleanála

Building work started in the zone of notification 56 commencement notices

The record LI005-017082

SMR number
LI005-017082
Class
Battery
Townland
IRISHTOWN,Limerick City, Co. Limerick
Named on the OS map
Not indicated
National record
National Monuments Service record for LI005-017082

Black Battery which according to Leask (1941, 103) was located just inside the mural tower (LI005-017010-) at SE angle of Irishtown, east of St. John's Gate in the hospital grounds in the city of Limerick (LI005-017----). This 17th century fortification was described by Leask (ibid.) as following; 'Close to the southern end of this long east wall (LI005-017010-), in the space now occupied by the New Road and for some distance from it towards the corner tower, was the breach made in the wall by the Williamite artillery in the siege of 1690. The Journal of John Stevens gives the width of the breach at its greatest — just before the besiegers withdrew some days subsequent to the fierce but unsuccessful assault — as forty paces. This agrees closely with the visible facts: the width of the road and the length of the repaired portion of the wall closer to the Black Battery (P on Map). This lay upon the rampart within the salient south-east tower, which still remains. It is shown on the older maps'. The White MSS. tells that, in from 1643 —"This Year, Dominick White being Mayor of Limerick, the east rampart from St. John's Gate, towards the green called Ana Mayor Chluoin, was made." The Civil Survey (Simington 1938, 489) throws light on the position of this latter point: The Greene, commonly called Cluone, and the Bogg on ye north …..mearing on the west with the Rampier and the walls of the South Suburbs……It is fairly evident that the Cluain, or na Clony, tower is either that tentatively identified with "Cogan's Tower" or is the south-east tower. But since the rampart behind the former is—almost certainly—a work of 1690-91, the 1643 reference in the White MSS. must be to the rampart of the south wall—east of St. John's Gate in the hospital grounds—on which stood the Black Battery of the sieges, and to the tower at the angle there; evidently the tower na Clony itself'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 21 November 2019

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Buildings of Ireland (NIAH) within 100 m

  • 21513042 Saint John's Hospital · Regional rating · 63 m
  • 21513067 town/city walls · Regional rating · 94 m
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