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| PERY SQUARE, CITY OF LIMERICK. -The above picture shows a section of one of the leading squares of the City of Limerick, and is named after the founder of that portion of the city called Newtown Pery, which lies in the almost triangular space between the river Shannon and the "Irish Town," so memorable in the warlike history of the past. Pery with one "r," is the family name of the Earis of Limerick, whose ancestor, the Right Hon. Edward Sexton Pery, began the building of the new town in 1769. This is the most fashionable, because the most modern, district of Limerick, and contains wealthy George street called-without any excuse of patriotism, even from a "Unionist" standpoint-after one of the worst of the recent English Kings. The buildings in this square are creditable to the architectural taste of modern Limerick. There has been recently erected within its precincts, a monument to the once well-known financier and politician, Spring Rice, who became Chancelor of the Exchequer, and was afterward raised to the peerage, as Lord Monteagle. There are diverse other objects of general interest in the locality, but, after all the chief fame of limerick rests on her heroic and battered "walls." |
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