The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Limerick City (now)
Museum
Two carved heads from different sites are now housed in Limerick City Museum.
One carved head was found incorporated into the stonework of the old Protestant church at Feakle (Clare), built in 1824. It was found during the demolition of the church in c.1954.
The second carved head was found on the site of St Peter's Cell, Limerick.
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.