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- 1. Adare, Limerick, Ireland
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Parish church The former Augustinian friary is now a Church of Ireland parish church. The font is the only possibly Romanesque feature.
- 2. Clonkeen, Limerick, Ireland
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Parish church Small rectangular church with antae at E and W end. (Internal measurements 14.6 m x 5.5 m). Roofless, but with walls fairly well preserved. The W part of the church, incorporating the N window and the fine W doorway is Romanesque, built of roughly coursed large stones, mostly sandstone. The E end was probably rebuilt in the 15thc. of thinner courses of grey limestone with late Gothic windows in the E and S walls.
- 3. Feakle fragment, Limerick City Museum, Limerick, Ireland
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Museum Carved head found incorporated into old Protestant church, built in 1824, during demolition of church inc.1954. Now housed in Limerick City Museum.
- 4. St Mary, Limerick,
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Cathedral church The four-bay aisled nave, crossing, and parts of the transept and chancel survive from the original 12thc. building. These are surrounded by later medieval work in the chancel, transepts and chapels flanking the nave, with post-medieval additions to the N and S of the chancel. The nave has square piers with pointed arches, surmounted by a round-headed clerestory with a wall passage; there are five clerestory windows in N and S walls, set over the piers, and the centre of the arches in the three E bays. There is a tower over the W bay, with a similar window and wall passage; the W wall has three narrow pointed lancets, the centre lancet taller than the side lancets, with a wall passage at the base. The W tower arch has been inserted inside the original piers of the W bay. Sculpture is found on the W doorway (Drastically restored in 1895, when only the label and innermost order remained), on the capitals of the nave arcades and on corbels in the aisles.
- 5. Fragment from St Peter’s Cell, Limerick (Limerick, City Museum),
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Museum Carved head found on the site of St Peter's cell, Limerick. Now housed in Limerick City Museum.
- 6. Monasteranenagh Abbey, Limerick,
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Cistercian Abbey church The church has a square presbytery, with three lancets in the E wall. The transepts are almost completely destroyed, but originally had three square chapels opening off each transept arm. Only part of the S chapel of the N transept survives, showing the remains of groin or rib vaults. The aisled nave had four plain arches on each side at the E end, and a blank wall separated nave and aisles at the W end. Only part of the outer wall of the S aisle remains, and nothing of the N aisle. The W crossing piers were enlarged as a result of a change of design. The abbey was later reduced in size by blocking the transept arches and inserting a new W wall enclosing the two E bays of the nave. A barrel vault was built over the S transept in the later middle ages.
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