Our Next Event

Outing to Gloster and Roscrea

Sunday 17 May

 

FÁILTE - WELCOME

Welcome to the BLOG of the Limerick Chapter
 of the Irish Georgian Society

The aims of the Irish Georgian Society [IGS] are to encourage an interest in, and to promote the preservation of, distinguished examples of architecture and the allied arts in Ireland.

The Society, based in Dublin, has local Chapters in Ireland, England and the United States. In Ireland there are Chapters in Birr, Cork and Limerick.

The Limerick Chapter serves members of the IGS living in the Mid-West.
We organise lectures, outings and exhibitions throughout the year.

For more information about the Limerick Chapter please contact 

Dr Ursula Callaghan
urscal@gmail.com

Conolly Folly

Designed by architect Richard Castle, (1695-1751), this soaring obelisk supported by a series of arches beneath stands 140 feet tall. It was erected in 1740 by Katherine Conolly to provide employment, during the severe winter and subsequent famine of 1739/40, for the starving Castletown tenantry.

My Sister is now building an obleix to answer a vistow from the bake of Castletown house; it will cost her three or four hundred pounds at least, but I believe more. I really wonder how she can dow so much and live as she duse.  [Mary Jones March 1740].

 In 1960, then in a ruinous state, it was acquired by the recently reconstituted Irish Georgian Society and its restoration was their first major project. In 1989 Mariga Guinness, one of the Society’s co-founders was buried beneath one of the side arches. It is the emblem of the Society.

Social Evening

Our annual review and Social Evening was held  the Pery NO 1 Hotel on Wednesday t, 10 December.
Everyone enjoyed the wine, mince pies and stimulating conversation.

Pop Up Museum

  Our Pop Up Museum in Rutland St ....Limerick Georgian Society's very successful initiative for Limerick City of Culture

2014.

Next Lecture

Our Lectures will resume in the Autumn

Images of A Busy Year

At Birr Castle

AGM

Our Annual Social Evening was held on Wednesday 11 December at Number 1 Pery Square Hotel 
After the formal business there was a Limerick Launch for Robert O'Byrne's book on the Knight of Glin and afterwards, we enjoyed mulled wine, mince pies,  quizzes, trivia, spot prizes etc