County Limerick

County Limerick is located in the province of Munster in Ireland's Shannon Region. It takes its name from its capital, Limerick City, the Republic of Ireland's third largest city. The River Shannon widens into an estuary on leaving the city, forming a substantial natural barrier between County Limerick and Clare to the north. Limerick is a scenic county characterised mainly by green pastoral countryside. It is ringed by hills and mountains, most notably the Galtee Mountains in the south-east, Ireland's highest inland mountain range.

Cities

Limerick

• Limerick

Understand

Limerick is located in the province of Munster. It is named after the city of Limerick which has an urban population of about 100,000 people. Limerick is the tenth largest of Ireland’s 32 counties by area and the eighth largest by population. It is the fifth largest of Munster’s 6 counties in size and the second largest by population.
The River Shannon flows through the city of Limerick into the Atlantic Ocean at the north of the county. Below the city, the waterway is known as the Shannon Estuary. Because the estuary is shallow, the county's most important port is several kilometres west of the city, at Foynes. Newcastle West is the most important county town outside of Limerick city with a population of around 10,000. Other towns mainly lie along the Limerick – Tralee roads (N21) and Limerick – Cork road (N20).

Get in

By plane

• The closest airport to County Limerick is Shannon International Airport based in County Clare. Shannon Airport is the second busiest airport in Ireland and during 2006 carried over 3.6million passengers. The airport mainly offers destinations to Europe and the United States with Ryanair, Continental, Delta and Aer Lingus being the main carriers. During peak months chartered flights cater for the main tourist hot spots around Europe.

By train

• County Limerick is served by only one train station, Colbert Station which is situated on Parnell Street in Limerick City. While County Limerick is not as well connected by rail as it was in prior times, the ever improving state of rail travel in Ireland is hoping to address some of these issues. Limerick railway station is operated by Irish Rail serves the following locations without needing a change:

• Limerick - Rosslare
• Limerick - Bally Brophy
• Limerick - Dublin
• Limerick - Ennis

Other destinations such as Cork, Tralee, Galway, Sligo and Belfast can be reached using the Irish rail network, but require changing trains.

By car

Access to Limerick via car has never been easier due to the massive amount of investment recent Governments in Ireland have poured into improving the road infrastructure in Ireland. Today the road from Dublin to Limerick is motorway standard for up to 100km while other improvements will be coming on line soon. The main arterial routes to County Limerick are as follows

• N7 - Limerick to Dublin (estimated distance 200km)
• N18 - Limerick to Ennis (estimated distance 40km)
• N19 - Limerick to Shannon (estimated distance 20km)
• N20 - Limerick to Cork (estimated distance 100km)
• N21/22/23 - Limerick to Killarney (estimated distance 110km)
• N24 - Limerick to Waterford (estimated distance 130km)
• N66 - Limerick to Ennis / Galway (estimated distance 100km)
• N69 - Limerick to Tralee (estimated distance 100km)

By bus

• There is a bus service (Bus Eireann) to Dublin, Cork, Galway, Ennis and Waterford.

Get around

Car Rental

The main location for picking up a car rental in County Limerick is at Shannon International Airport [1].

See

• Adare
• Limerick
• Ryans Honey Farm, Pallasgreen, Co. Limerick, ☎ +3536257147.  edit

Eat

Limerick City has some of the best restaurants in Ireland outside Cork or Dublin.

Highly recommended are:

"Copper and Spice" Cornmarket Row for Indian and Thai Food.

"Brulees" on Henry Street which specialises in traditional European Fare.

"Moll Darby's" on George's Quay with superb but expensive Fish Dishes.

"The River Cafe" also on George's Quay - a traditional but superb French Bistro.

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