Limerick Data

pedroeibar1 wrote: »

Very sad, but when you hear ‘Fas’ and then read they ‘decide on schemes on a point-scoring basis’ it can be expected that common sense goes out the window. Did anyone do a cost/benefit analysis?

The objectives of a Civic Trust mandate us to “Create a better understanding of our heritage through new information, advice and education.” All of our research work is based on sourcing new unpublished material and then making our recordings and findings available to the public in different formats. To date we have published:

Books

• The Pery Square Tontine Story
• The Georgian House & Garden “A historic Limerick House”
• Georgian Limerick Vol. I
• Remembering Limerick - Detailing information on Limerick’s general and Mayoral history.
• Georgian Limerick Vol. II
• Made in Limerick. Vol. I - History of Limerick’s industries, trade and commerce.
• James Pain Architect - A study on the life and work of this renowned architect.
• Made in Limerick Vol II - Essays and articles based on new research.
• Limerick Civic Trust - The First 25 Years 1983-2009
• Parker Carrol - This was a joint project between Brian O'Connell, Limerick Civic Trust and Oviado University, Spain to research and produce a biography on a forgotten Irish hero.

Surveys and Public Service


General research work for the general public.

• Recorded information on headstones in burial grounds.
• Erected sixty-six historical plaques in two phases.
• King’s Island survey: a development study.
• Information given to students and the public.
• The Crescent, a survey and proposal for its preservation.
• Nicholas Street development plan.
• Photography survey of the facades of existing Georgian buildings.
• The Folklore Project: 138 interviews recorded to date.
• Georgian street furniture survey.
• City Centre Environment Survey.
• The Exchange Wall: Arranged for a condition survey and a work methodology plan.
• Over 300 items of art, sculpture, monuments, murals, antiquities. etc. located throughout the streets of Limerick were recorded and catalogued.
• St. Saviour's Priory Wall, Bishop Street: Condition survey and conservation methodology report on.

Booklets, Maps and Walking Trail

• Limerick City Walking Tours - Brochure advertising 5 different walking tours in Limerick
• Limerick Civic Plaques - Commemorating Limerick People who contributed to the history of Limerick City
• Limerick Street Antiquities - A record of historical artefacts
• Limerick – An Appreciation - A précis of Limerick’s history.
• Heritage Precinct Walking Trail - A self-guided tour of the King’s Island area.
• A Trail of Three Limerick - Three walking trails based on our plaques project.
• The Georgian House & Garden - A visitor’s guide.
• The Limerick We Don’t See - A treasure trail of architectural features in the Newtown Pery area.
• The Limerick We Don’t See No. 2 - Englishtown Trail.
• The Hall of Fame Portraits - Honouring the achievements of 23 Limerick people.
• The Limerick We Don’t See No 3 - Irishtown Trail.
• Limerick – The Past Revisited - Two riverside walks between Thomond and Shannon Bridges.
• Georgian Limerick - An illustrated map of Newtown Pery.
• Limerick Civic Trust - A Record of Achievement
• A 32 page calendar for January 2008 - January 2010, illustrating 25 selected Trust projects.
• Art in the Street Though the Lens - Following a survey a booklet on street art via four walking trails was published.
• The Bishops' Palace - The Georgian House - A short history of these historic properties.
• Medieval Limerick - An illustrated map and booklet of Limerick in the 1650's
• Limerick Soccer - Research on the senior team's history.

Current Research for:

• Georgian Limerick Vol. III
• Made in Limerick Vol. III
• Limerick’s Cultural Heritage
• A booklet series on one topic subject

Research, Archive and Genealogical Services (Valuation Office)

Our public office team provides inspection facilities for members of the public to view all current and archive rating records and maps. Our archives contain the original books and surveys carried out in the 1840s, books and maps of Griffith's Valuations in the 1850s, and documentation showing the subsequent revisions up to the current position. The public office team also provides the following certificates and services:

• Current certificates of rateable valuation
• Historical certificates of rateable valuation
• Certified copies of valuation maps
• Provisional valuation certificates
• Inspection of archival material
• Inspection of the results of the revision and appeal process

• General Inquiries
• Names List

How to trace your Limerick Family History. (Limerickslife)

Some very useful tips to be got there.

• St. John’s Division – 34 Sections and 940 members.
• St. Michael’s Division – 36 Sections and 967 members.

But this simple method was impossible in our case: the numbers were far too large. The church was packed; the men could not move about without great difficulty; we did not know the city with its back streets, and thus a more laborious and studious method had to be followed. Books had been filled with the names taken down. We cut them up into slips, each slip containing one name, and made a great heap of them. I invited several postmen to my help and they made about a dozen districts out of the city and suburbs on which they agreed, and then distributed the big heap into twelve smaller heaps, so far as they could. I say so far as they could, for they soon found that they could not recognise half the localities. There were “Flag Lanes” and “Pump Courts” into which no postman had ever penetrated. I had to call in several well known rent collectors to assist me in finding these hidden recesses.

Then, again, many addresses were so imperfect or so badly written that we could not arrange them. The next distribution was of the twelve minor heaps into sub-divisions of thirty each; for we had agreed to give three large benches of the nave, or four small benches of the aisles, to each section and to limit the numbers to thirty.

When this division was made, I got about fifty copy books. On the first leaf was written the name of the patron saint, and the street and lanes assigned to that section. Then the names were all copied from the slips in fair round hand into the books. Several clerks helped me in this work, one reading and the other writing, and then after a time, changing places. But as these men could only come in the evenings, I employed an old lawyer’s clerk. He not only filled up the copy books, but performed the more laborious task of drawing up an index book giving the name alphabetically with occupation and address, and adding the name of the section. Such a book was soon found indispensable.

It is easier to marshal men on paper than to drill them in flesh and blood. When Tuesday came, I explained the principle of division and its purpose: the purpose being that the attendance might be registered, and that members living in the same locality might come to know each other, and assist each other when sick, dying or dead, the principle of division being in general that of locality. Then I cleared some benches on the Gospel side and declared that these were for the Section of St. Alphonsus, in which I had placed young men from one of the drapers’ houses. These soon came forward. But all did not run so smoothly.

One difficulty arose from the number of similar names. I have this morning glanced at the original alphabetical Register. I find ten Kings – a large number for a republic like our Confraternity. I find ten Sextons – enough to bury us all. But these are rare names. Take the letter K. There are 39 Kellys, 35 Kennedys, besides 12 Kennys and 8 Kennellys. What a confusion when these names are called out in a vast church in the midst of movement! Then the Macs and the MacNamaras! It seems that some Celts nowadays drop their Macs or their O altogether and are contented to be called simple Sheahan instead of Mac Sheahan and Doherty rather than O’Doherty. But, on the other hand, there are some who drop the clan or family name and cling to Mac; so that ‘Paddy Mac’ or ‘Biddy Mac’ is in Limerick a common abbreviation for Patrick MacNamara or Bridget MacMahon.

However I find in our first Index Book 99 MacNamaras written full. Now imagine the scene on these first nights when I was trying to get men into their places. I want to put a certain MacNamara into the Section of St. Brendan. I begin to read in a loud voice: ' MacNamara!’ One hundred voices cry out: ‘Here, Father’ and two hundred legs stand erect. I go on: ‘MacNamara, Patrick’. Fifty men sit down disappointed and fifty say: ‘Here, Father’. Once more ‘Patrick MacNamara, Tailor’ Twenty-five sit down
and twenty-five cry: ‘Here, Father’. At last: ‘Patrick MacNamara, No 5 Pump Lane, Boherbuoy’ – and so I get my man, and he fights his way through the crowd, amidst considerable laughter, to the vacant place. Or just as likely I did not get him. He was not there that night and I had all my trouble for nothing.

But suppose I did get him into his place – was all over? Not at all. Next week he had forgotten the name of his section or the exact part of the church where I had placed him, and how could I find out? I could not search through 1,500 names and 50 books till I found one that would suit him. So I found it necessary to have an alphabetical Register, and when a man forgot his section or had been absent when his name was called, we looked him up in the register and wrote for him on a paper the name of his section and of his prefect, and sent him off to make his acquaintance. This first classification was so difficult that I remained in the pulpit till nearly 11 o’clock at night on the first three or four meetings.

Source Golden Jubilee Book 1868-1918 (Limerick City Library)

pedroeibar1 wrote: »

Agreed - or perhaps the people in IARC could take on the job? Have they yet filled the CEO/GM role?

I also see a fellow boardsie on their Research Associate page too.

Brennans Row wrote: »

70,000 Limerick Cemetery Burial Records Go Online (Limerick Archives)

Beyond the Grave (LM&A)

Limerick Museum and Archives (LM&A) in partnership with Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, will be hosting a three day conference on the theme of death and burial in Ireland (April 25th to 27th 2014).

LM&A and the Geography and History Departments of Mary Immaculate College, have been working for almost three years on a joint project to digitise the records of Mount St. Lawrence Cemetery and to showcase its historic importance to the city of Limerick.

We wish to launch our two main projects: a searchable map of this eighteen acre burial ground and a comprehensive history of the cemetery.

We will be launching these projects over a weekend long conference in Limerick, where we look at all aspects of death and burial in Ireland.

This conference is for all who are interested in this area of our heritage bridging the gap between academic and non-academic, the experts and non-experts.

This conference will take place throughout Limerick City with the Friday event taking place in City Hall, the Saturday lectures in Mary Immaculate College and the Sunday event will take place in various sites across the city.

Searchable Map of Mount St Lawrence Cemetery

Browse through an interactive map of grave markers at Mount St Lawrence Cemetery. Each grave marker has been photographed and can be searched by name

In 2012 following on from the successful Mount Saint Lawrence transcribed Burial Register Transcriptions , Limerick City Archives and the staff and students of the History and Geography Departments of Mary Immaculate College began mapping and transcribing the 7,000+ gravemarkers in this historic cemetery.

The older longitude and latitude system used on the Original Burial Register was not suitable for the headstone mapping process. A new mapping process was introduced each gravemarker was given a unique identifier based first by section, then by row from the front gate back, and finally by grave marker working from left to right in each section. Then each grave marker was given a GPS location for each grave marker is linked to a photograph and memorial data for each headstone.

To date, April 2014, each grave marker has been photographed and is available to view by reference number or can be searched by the first surname recorded on the memorial. Sections A-H have been transcribed and these can be searched for individuals by name and year of death. There are 12,000+ individuals on this database.