Athlunkard Street ( ga, Sráid Áth Longphuirt) is a street on King's Island, in

Limerick City Limerick ( ; ga, Luimneach ) is a western city in Ireland situated within County Limerick. It is in the province of Munster and is located in the Mid-West which comprises part of the Southern Region. With a population of 94,192 at the 2016 c ...

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. The Irish name is, ''Áth Longphuirt'', meaning "ford of the longphort," refers to a 9th-century Viking

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(defended ship encampment) once located at that ford over the Shannon. Athlunkard Street stretches from the Abbey River, at the O'Dwyer Bridge to the intersection with Mary Street and Nicholas Street. The Arthlunkard name continues over O'Dwyer Bridge with Athlunkard Avenue in Corbally, and the Athlunkard Bridge in Corbally, across the

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from the

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of Athlunkard, County Clare.

Points of Interest

*Athlunkard Boat Club, established 1898. *Bourke's House, constructed in 1690. *O'Dwyer Bridge, constructed in 1931. * St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, which opened in 1932 on the site of an older chapel of the same name. It is the parish church for St. Mary's Parish, which was established at the Synod of Ráth Breasail in A.D.1111.

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Athlunkard Street
in the Census of Ireland, 1911. {{Limerick, state=autocollapse Streets in Limerick (city)