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of the main building ; a central tower with a low, pointed spire, and a 

 planted cemetery. It was destroyed in the siege of 1651 ; the cemetery 

 lies near the castle barrack. 



5. St. Martin^'s Chuech, — learned in Inq., 1201, and Eishop 

 Donat's Ordinance, 1204. 



6. St. Laukence's Chuech. — Inq., 1201, also called " Cotthenu," 

 Tythes of fish at Cotheann extra civitat," named 1204 (B.B.L., 

 p. 109), ''Ecc. de Cottyn, alias Sci. Laurencii," Tax. Proc, 1418. 

 See also Martin Arthur's will, 1376, and Royal Visitation, 1633. 

 Site — It stood near the County Hospital, and has been long since 

 demolished. 



7. St. Maey's Eound Chuech. — Only named in Inq., 1201, ''Ecc. 

 S. Marie Eotunda." 



8. St. Michael's Chuech.— Inq., 1201. Wills of M. Arthur, 

 1376, and G. Galwey, 1445. The church and chancel were ruinous 

 in 1615. 



The parish church of St. Michael the Archangel, entirely destroyed 

 in the times of Cromwell, lay near the walls outside the "West Water 

 Gate, 1658. The saint's day was 29th September. (White MSS.) 



Site — It was long since levelled. The view in the 1590 map 

 shows a building with a side aisle and a battlemented tower. The 

 cemetery remains in James's Street, near Bank Place. Monument — 

 Bev. Dr. E. Wight, Archdeacon, 1790.^ 



9. St. Beigid's Chuech. — Inq., 1201. 



10. St. Akne's Chapel. — Edward II. granted certain tenements 

 to W. Blound to celebrate masses there, 1320 (Pat. E., p. 73). 



11. St. Andeew's Chapel, Limerick Castle. — Henry III. granted 

 a fishery, mills, and lands, at Drumyn, to our chapel. Limerick 

 Castle," W. de Cardiff to be its parson, c. 1216 (undated, B.B.L., Ix., 

 pp. 42, 101, 116). This deed calls King John ^'bonae memoriae"! 

 Another (B.B.L., p. 101) states that when King John was at war 

 with his barons the fisheries and mill, with Drumyn, belonged to 

 the chapel of Limerick, whose parson was William de Kardyf (xxi.), 

 Ap., 1216 (?). Also a grant, c. 1240, by Bishop Hubert to Geffry de 

 Mariscis, and the latter's appointment, c. 1250, of Thomas le Capellan 

 to the king's chapel in Limerick Castle (B.B.L., xliii.)^ 



ip.M.D., iii., p. 104. 



2 Among the later churches we find — I. C, St. George's, 1789 ; Presbyterians, 

 c. 1690: they got the chapel of Augustinian monastery of St. Peter, 1776, in 

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