Limerick, Ireland in 8-Hours: Castles, Cathedrals & Cranberries 

Want our list of where to go + stay in Limerick? Here's our list of the top 5 from our video: chrisplusmelissa.com/limerick-ireland-in-24-hours-what-to-see-where-to-stay/

My dad's from Limerick, would love to travel to Ireland 🙏🇮🇪

I live 20 minutes from Limerick and you have seen more than I have, I now have a list. Good choice a lovely pin of Smithwick's and it looked pretty good. Great video really nicely presented.

That guy on the lute was crazy good. I could listen to him for ages! Great to see Limerick featured, it often gets overlooked by visitors for Galway and Killarney. Definitely check out Limerick hurling next time your around, theyre all Ireland champions 4 years running. Limerick is also home to Munster rugby, one of the 4 provincial Irish teams that play in the international United Rugby Championship (who are also the 2023 champions, beating the Stormers in the final in Cape Town!) Theres also a newly opened rugby museum worth checking out in the city center.

Welcome back Chris & Melissa🎉

Hi Guys I’m Irish but have learnt so much from your videos , stuff I never knew !! Enjoy Limerick

Hi guys, Nice to see you back in Ireland. We did Ireland in April, we visit King John’s castle on trip, but so much more on offer then we had, but we still had a ball. Loved the activities on offer when we visited, even if just a sample. We had lunch at Katie Dalys pub. Great video guys

Fabulous tour of Limerick! Thanks again for the fun information ❤️🧳

Best thing about Limerick is the pubs because a lot of them are sort of untouched and haven't been excessively themed for tourists. That area around King Johns Castle is a little bit spicey but very authentic. Other positives would be that it has an excellent art college and there's a lot of good contemporary local music gigs and exhibits on.

Hey guys. Happy to see you back!

Hope you enjoyed limerick, you passed my house , I started watching the channel few days ago you guys make great videos 😊

Do do do do...Dolores! You guys rock...In a funny way!😉

Welcome back, missing the rain

We celebrated the signing of that treaty in 1991 ,300 years great year that was,thanks for visiting limerick, try to get to thomond park for a munster rugby match

Welcome back to the auld sod! 🍀

Im originally from Limerick and just came across ye on RU-vid. Watching yer Limerick video makes me realise I haven't seen enough of it 😬and I grew up there. Ye seem like good craic and hope ye enjoyed Limerick 😁

Wow my hometown 😁

Holy cow! U guys rock, man 😉 💯👍 loved watching your visit 2 Limerick city. So funny, so cool, so interesting. And ye showed off everything so beautifully, a huge fan here now, guys 💯😁👋🤜

Thank you for this video. I was an American exchange student from New Jersey attending the University of Limerick in 1991. King John's Castle was just opened after renovation that October and St. Mary's was undergoing renovations. I was there for the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Limerick.

My ancestor, William Patrick McCarthy, emigrated from Limerick, Ireland in the 1840s due to the Great Hunger

What did St Patrick say to the snakes as he drove them out of Ireland? "Are yes all right there in the back"

YES another round in Ireland!!!! Please tell me there will be some bakeries in there as pitstops. I loved my time in Ireland and as soon as I was on the plane headed home I wanted to plan my next trip. Next time I want to focus on the east coast around Galway through the southwest corner as well as include another trip out to the islands to stay the night on Inis Mor or Inis Meain.

You are such a sweet couple. I was born and raised in Thomondgate Limerick. I left when I married my English husband over 42 years ago now. My walk home from school would take me by King Johns Castle, which at that time was open to anyone, and I would often climb the steep stairs to get a view of the Shannon river. My family history is connected to both sides of that river, ie, English Town and Irish town. On one side you may have come across St. Munchins Catholic Church and just across the river on the other side is St. Mary’s Protestant Church. My father was baptised in both of these churches!

My ancestors Blakeney, came from Mount Blakeney in Limerick.

When you do come back do it on a weekend. Get up early and go to the milk market on a saturday morning. You can alsk visit some of the places featured in Angelas ashes (redemprorists church, st. Joseph's church, and south's bar. Drive out to adare and see the thatched cottages, or go further still and hit Foynes, where the flying boat museum is, and where the irish coffee was invented

Brilliant Video. Glad you enjoyed our City

You folks are naturals at what you do and you are a beautiful couple.

My mother actually grew up in the castle. There used to be houses within the castle grounds up until the early 1990s. They called it the “castle barracks”. Nice to see you enjoyed Limerick. Great video ❤

Bunratty Castle and Beside it Dirtynellys Pub - well worth a visit

Highly recommend Souths Pub if you get a chance to get there

Correction st patrick didn't get rid of the snakes he put them in leinster house in dublin

Katherine Rose ( Katie) Daly was born in Oakland, California in 1872. Her father,William ( Bill) Daly, was from Roscrea, Co. Tipperary, his family made Poitín up the mountains of Tipperary. ( Mountain Dew) My great great grandfather Thomas Reilly of Roscrea was a cousin of Bill Daly.

Nice to see Limerick . I grew up in Limerick , 100% Limerick roots but now live in Kinsale , that you know well.

The doors from st Mary's are believed to be the doors from the O'Brien's the original palace... Very ornate Roman style if you look close

I was 100% sure that @ 10:29 Melissa said that cannibals were fired at the church. I know things were kinda bad around those times but man, that was really crazy! The next sentence clarified it for me, I got the cannonballs thing loud and clear. Maybe I just need to get my hearing checked out😊

welcome back

Limerick city is known more for rugby but the countryside is hurling.Unfortunately the intercounty season is over since the middle of july and won't be starting again till january.Yes limerick is doing well they won the championship for the 4th year in succession and 5 in six years after a wait of 45 years.

Some things told are thought in another way just like the writing with the stone. Like with King Arthur and pulling the sword out of a stone. The mistake that people make is that a sword was pulled out of a rock, and called it Excalibur. What really happened is that a sword was made of smelted metal poured into a stone mould. This is where the stone that the sword was taken from and it is normal that when you make something, you would give it a name.

John's Castle is a strange kind of tourist trap that offers a distorted version of history about the castle, Limerick and Ireland. Its owners, Limerick City and County Council, should be ashamed. It provides no native Gaelic history, despite over 500 years of interactions between surrounding Gaelic kingdoms and castle "chiefs" up to the 16th century. It touches on Viking Limerick, but is mainly focused on Franco Norman history in Limerick. The castle history describes these Norman's as "English". Rubbish. They were French speaking Franco Normans with lands in France, Britain and Ireland. The castle should more accurately be called Jean Plantagenet's Castle or Château du Roi Jean Plantagenet. There was no "King John". Fun fact, Roi Jean died of an acute bout of dysentery while fighting over lands with Norman knights in the so-called "Revolt of the Barons" in 1210. After conquering and colonizing England in 1066, the Norman French divided in to dynasties to grab as much land as they could backed by money and troops from France. None of this history is offered at "John's Castle" in Limerick. One of the many strange observations on our visit was failing to notice a single member of staff who is Irish. Even in this video, the "castle characters" all seem to be from England. It would be a lot more historically factual if they were a blend of Gaelic and Norman French. This would be a true depiction of life at the "castle" in the 12th century. I'm definitely not blaming staff for Château du Jean's shortcomings. This is a blame shared by Limerick City and County Council, and before that the State owned Shannon Group that also operates Bunratty Castle. Both have conspired, intentionally or unintentionally, to distort Limerick's and Ireland's true history and present visitors with a poor nickel and dime substitute. As a result, visitors are being short- changed on historical accuracy and facts. The mind boggles just how Château du Jean's current and former owners could have gotten the historical part of the castles past so badly wrong. Were professional, competent historians not consulted? Or were they just ignored to suit a certain political narrative?

What time of the year was this video made?

Where will you be at the end of September?

Hello 👋 how are you

Lads,ye could have went up the city center twas only a 5 minute walk