Approximate walking times around POINT OF SPORT Walkable Neighbourhood the city, calculated on the basis of LIMERICK INTEREST INSTITUTE OF Limerick City an average speed of 5 km/h. TECHNOLOGY (+4min) PARK TRAVEL LIT GAELIC THOMOND 14 min BARRINGTON’S GROUNDS / PARK PIER LIT PÁIRC NA NGAEL SHOPPING EDUCATION min 3 WOODFIELD BIKE DOCK OFF STREET PARKING 9 HOUSE HOTEL min min WESTFIELDS 5 WETLANDS PARK LIMERICK LAWN min Tourist Highlights TENNIS CLUB 2 1 4 min min ST. MICHAEL’S 8 ROWING CLUB UNIVERSITY King John’s Castle The Hunt Museum DOLAN’S MATERNITY WAREHOUSE 1 HOSPITAL Located on King’s Island, King Located in the old Customs min LIMERICK CURRAGOWER CLEEVE’S min John’s Castle is one of the House, the Hunt Museum was 3 FALLS 4 TREATY best-preserved Norman castles established to house the min min 3 SHANNON 4min 4min 1min 2min STONE BRIDGE in Europe. Built between 1200 internationally important LIMERICK STRAND ANTHONY and 1210, the site was also used collection of approximately HOTEL FOLEY 3 THOMOND MEMORIAL min BRIDGE by the Vikings who lived on the 2,000 works of art and antiquities MOUNT island as far back as 922. Today formed by John and Gertrude min KENNETH 3 SARSFIELD the castle hosts state-of-the- Hunt during their lifetimes. The SKATEPARK 4 KING JOHN’S min BRIDGE CASTLE art interpretive activities and museum also displays its own 1 min ARTHUR’S min exhibitions which bring to life collections, as well as visiting 5 2min QUAY PARK TREATY CITY over 800 years of dramatic exhibitions of local, national and TERRY BREWERY GARDENS WOGAN local history. international significance. min MEMORIAL 2 INTERNATIONAL 1 min The Milk Market St. Mary’s Cathedral 3 min CITY MARY LIMERICK min HALL 1min The Milk Market is one of the Founded in 1168, St. Mary’s IMMACULATE MUSEUM 2 COLLEGE / min 1 ST. MARY’S oldest markets in Ireland, Cathedral has witnessed over LIME TREE O’CONNELL TOURIST ARTHUR’S QUAY min CATHEDRAL THEATRE (+7min) MONUMENT OFFICE SHOPPING CENTRE 1 dating back to 1852. Today the 800 years of invasion, siege, 3min 1min 5min 1min BROWN 2min 2min 1min food market houses almost 50 famine, war and peace. THOMAS stalls and 21 shop units under The oldest building in Limerick BOBBY BELLTABLE 1 THE HUNT THE LOCKE BYRNE’S min MUSEUM BAR the cover of Ireland’s largest still in continuous daily use, min WILLIAM single column support canopy. St. Mary’s Cathedral is located 2 min STREET 1 The market opens Friday to on the site of the former palace FASHION 1 QUARTER 1min min Sunday until 3pm each day. of the King of Munster, Donal CRUISES THOMAS STREET Mór O’Brien. min 3 STREET min 2 min 1 TAIT’S Treaty City Brewery Thomond Park CLOCK THE MILK min MARKET Located in the heart of Home ground of two-time 2 BIODIVERSITY 4 Limerick’s Medieval Quarter, European champions Munster LIMERICK GARDEN min CITY GALLERY Treaty City Brewery oers tours Rugby, Thomond Park has a min OF ART ST. JOHN’S 1 CATHEDRAL of a working brewery located in capacity of 25,600 and is one of min 6 a historical building dating back the most successful and best PEOPLE’S 7 PARK min 250 years. Learn about the supported rugby clubs in the min LIMERICK 3 COURT HOUSE history of brewing in Limerick, world. Visit the Thomond Park COLBERT LIT LIMERICK TRAIN STATION SCHOOL OF ART meet the master brewer, sample Museum or arrange a behind & LIMERICK 7min 3min AND DESIGN BUS STATION local craft beers and learn about the scenes tour of the stadium the process and ingredients to learn more about the history min UNIVERSITY 5 OF LIMERICK / used to create them. of this famous province. MARKETS UNIVERSITY FIELD CONCERT HALL (+36min) ...and don’t miss Limerick City Gallery of Art and Limerick Museum. This map is an initiative of Eireannachtharlear.com Walkable and an evolution of the original design by Rian Mac Walking Map Giobúin. The current design of the map has been Neighbourhood funded by Limerick City and County Council and developed by Rian Mac Giobúin in partnership Limerick Limerick City with Piquant Media. City www.limerick.ie Limerick city is a compact and walkable city with an abundance of great attractions that can be easily discovered on foot. The walking map of Limerick city is based on a concept originally developed by the municipality of Pontevedra in Spain. The map is designed to resemble a traditional public transport map and presents key locations and points of interest as stops on a pedestrian network. The map displays walking times between the stops and in doing so aims to encourage users to walk and enjoy Limerick city..
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