Limerick (disambiguation)

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 Nuclear Power Plant
• 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

See also

• LYMErix, a vaccine against Lyme disease