Limerick is a city in Ireland.

Limerick may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • Limerick (poetry), a form of verse, often humorous and sometimes rude, in five-line, predominantly anapestic meter, with a strict rhyme scheme of AABBA
  • Limerick (song), a traditional humorous drinking song with many obscene verses

Places

Ireland

  • County Limerick, Ireland, the county where the city Limerick is located
  • Limerick, County Wexford, a townland; see List of townlands of County Wexford

Canada

  • Limerick, Ontario
  • Limerick, Saskatchewan

United States

  • Limerick, Georgia
  • Limerick, Louisville, Kentucky
  • Limerick, Maine
  • Camanche, California, formerly Limerick
  • Limerick Township, Pennsylvania
  • Limerick Generating Station
  • New Limerick, Maine
  • San Ramon, California, formerly Limerick

Australia

  • Limerick, New South Wales

Constituencies

Before 1801

  • Askeaton (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
  • Kilmallock (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
  • Limerick City (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
  • County Limerick (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

1801–1885

  • Limerick City (UK Parliament constituency)
  • County Limerick (UK Parliament constituency)

1885–1922

  • Limerick City (UK Parliament constituency)
  • East Limerick (UK Parliament constituency)
  • West Limerick (UK Parliament constituency)

1921–1923

  • Kerry–Limerick West
  • Limerick City–Limerick East

1923–1948

  • Limerick (Dáil constituency)

1948–2011

  • Limerick East (Dáil constituency)
  • Limerick West (Dáil constituency)

2011–2016

  • Limerick (Dáil constituency)

2011–

  • Limerick City (Dáil constituency)

2016–

  • Limerick County (Dáil constituency)

People

  • Alison Limerick, British singer
  • Earl of Limerick, a British noble title
  • Patricia Nelson Limerick, American historian

Other uses

  • Limerick F.C., an Irish association football team
  • Limerick (horse), a New Zealand Thoroughbred race horse
  • Limerick lace, a variety of needle lace
  • , a paddle steamer

See also

  • LYMErix, a vaccine against Lyme disease