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People's Park

Spring Rice Memorial

Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle of Brandon
(1790 - 1866)
British Whig politician, MP for Limerick City, 1820-1832; Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1835 to 1839
(Wikipedia)

Thomas Kirk
1831

Limerick - Luimneach / Spring Rice Memorial

Description

Limestone statue on a Doric column. There are no inscriptions.

Artist

Thomas Kirk (Cork 1781 - Dublin 1845), Irish sculptor, father of Joseph Robinson Kirk (Wikipedia – Irish Architects – Biography).

Sources & Information

Limerick City Council, Monuments & Memorials.
Limerick's Life, Statues in Limerick City.
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, Rice's Memorial, People's Park, Pery Square, Limerick, Limerick City.

Location (N 52°39'29" - W 8°37'42") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: ie254; Photograph: 18 June 2014
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