Limerick is Ireland’s 3rd largest city and straddles the longest river, the Shannon. I wasn’t too sure what to expect after reading Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes, but the city is certainly not as grim as portrayed in his memoir – in fact not “grim” at all. It was charming & we enjoyed it a lot.

On the drive to Limerick City we stopped off at the smalltown of Kilmallock to visit the where my grandmother was born & raised.

My cousins Joyce & John took us to the blustery Cliffs of Moher & also a tour round the stunning Burren.

The last tourist destination we went to was the Rock of Cashel. The best was kept to the last. We both thought this was a spectacular site in a fabulous setting with a lot of history to it.

The Fountain of Heritage outside the City Hall commemorates the Treaty of Limerick 1691, which enabled the Jacobite Irish Army to depart to France, the event called the “Flight of the Wild Geese”. Across the River Shannon from the fountain is the weathered Treaty Stone on which the said Treaty was signed.