Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Town hall
Englishtown,limerick City, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Englishtown,limerick City
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.66745, -8.62146
- SMR number
- LI005-017170-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
O'Flaherty (2010, Fig. 3, 28) recorded the following details about the medieval Tholsel located at the junction of Mary St and Gaol Lane in Limerick City; 'Tholsel, junction Mary St/Gaol Lane (80057505). Tholsel 1406 (Westropp 1898, 41). Built or rebuilt in 1449 (Ferrar 1767, 20). Tholsel or courthouse 1629 (Sexten MS, 89). Rebuilt in 1640 (Shirley, 443). Courthouse or Town Hall, formerly town clerk’s hall, with gatehouse 1654 (CS). Town Hall, offices transferred to City Courthouse premises in 1654. Ruinous, rebuilt in 1664 (Dineley, 443). Converted to City Gaol (q.v.) after 1673 (Hill, 1991, 52). Illustration 1681 (Dineley MS, 140). Demolished in c. 1740 (Potter, 2006, 68)'.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 23 December 2019
References
Simington, R.C. (ed.) 1938 The civil survey, AD 1654-1656. Vol. IV: county of Limerick, with a section of Clanmaurice barony Co. Kerry. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Shirley, E.P., Dineley, T., O'Brien, R. and Graves, J. 1858-67 Extracts from the Journal of Thomas Dineley, Esquire, giving some account of his visit to Ireland in the reign of Charles II. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 6, 73-91, 176-204, 289-90.
O'Flaherty, E. 2010 Irish Historic Towns Atlas, no. 21, Limerick. Dublin. Royal Irish Academy.
NLI, MS 392 - National Library of Ireland, "Observations in a voyage in the Kingdom of France", and "Observations in a voyage through the Kingdom of Ireland", both by Thomas Dingley, 1675-80.
Hill, J. 1991 The building of Limerick. Mercier Press
Potter, M. 2006 Limerick city halls 1449–1534. In Lee & Jacobs (eds.) Made in Limerick 2, 65–73.
Ferrar, J. 1767 An history of the city of Limerick. Limerick.
Westropp, T. J. 1898 St Mary's Cathedral, Limerick: its plan and growth. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 28, 35-48, 112-25.
Nearby in the register
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.