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and tower. Mommients — Elinor, daughter of Thomas Young, 1649; 

 Thomas Smith, 1711; Major James Buchanan, 1778.^ In 1680 

 Dyneley says that the church was of no interest, save for the monu- 

 ments of W. Erenagh, 1594, and Jane Smyth, 1679. Descriptmi — 

 Eitzgerald, vol. ii., p. 556. 



3. St. John's Chtjech. — It is named by Bishop Donat, 1200 and 

 1201, and many later documents.^ Fabric — It retains a few portions 

 of the old fabric, though almost entirely remodelled It measured 

 60 feet by 63 feet, and had aisles. In 1680 Dyneley's sketch shows 

 it as having two side aisles, with east windows, having rich Gothic 

 tracery. The central gable had a plain rectangular window, with 

 shafts, set in the arch of the older one. In the north wall were a 

 double light, with pointed heads, a single lancet, and a pointed door; 

 there was a double bell-chamber on the east gable. ^ Monuments — 

 Before the rebuilding of 1763^ there was a fine monument of Thomas 

 and Johanna Eice, 1622, and a tablet of John Eoorde, Mayor, 1693, 

 calling the church " Sancti Johannis de Sancta Cruce." Description — 

 Eitzgerald, vol. ii., p. 558 ; Dyneley, ut supra. 



4. St. IN^icHOLAs' Chuech. — In 1204 Wm. de Burgo names it 

 " Sci. Kicholai, cum ear. ptin," ''ex donacione litteris vero Eegis 

 Momonie," i.e. Donaldmore, ante 1194 (B.B.L., p. 109), also M.F.H., 

 1201. It is namedin the wills of Martin Arthur, 1376,^ andGeffry Gal- 

 wey, 1445.'^ It was in good repair in 1615. Fabric — It is shown in the 

 Hardiman map of c. 1590 (jN'o. 57) as having a side aisle to the north 



name and the date ; but the style, and the words, '* Queene's Castel," mark it as 

 late Elizabethan. It sketches the cathedral and castle with reasonable accuracy, 

 which carries conviction as to the equally careful sketches of the Dominican and 

 Franciscan Convents, and the Churches of St. Munchin (Moghin), St. Nicholas, 

 and St. Michael. It is first described in Fitzgerald's " History of Limerick," 1827, 

 vol. ii., p. 421, and in Trans. R.I. A., vol. xiv., p. 72. 

 1 P.M.D., iii., p. 104, and p. 315. 



- St. John of the Holy Cross, in the Liberties of the City of Limerick, 1689, 

 Terrier, P.R.O.L, No. 1. 



3 R.S.A.I., 1866, p. 435. See copy, Plate XII., infra. 



* Another extensive rebuilding took place under Rev. John Elmes in 1851. He 

 notes that the new church was to be 20 feet longer (10 feet both to the east and 

 west) than the older church. Limerick Court Books, 1851." 



^ Fitzgerald's " History," vol. ii., p. 562. 



6 R. S.A.I, xxviii., p. 123. Galweyalso leaves legacies to the cathedral (Chapel 

 of St. James), the Friars Minor, St. Munchin' s, Holy Cross, St. John's, and 

 St. Michael's. 



