William Street () is one of the main thoroughfares of central

Limerick City Limerick ( ; ) is a city in western Ireland, in County Limerick. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and is in the Mid-West Region, Ireland, Mid-West which comprises part of the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region. W ...

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. The street starts at a junction with

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(Limerick's main thoroughfare) and continues in a south-east direction, where it is called Upper William Street. The street is named after

William Pery, 1st Baron Glentworth William Cecil Pery, 1st Baron Glentworth (26 July 1721 – 4 July 1794) was an 18th-century Anglican bishop in Ireland. Biography He was born on 26 July 1721, the son of Reverend Stackpole Pery and Jane Twigg, daughter of William Twigg, Archd ...

, the brother of Edmund Sexton Pery, who is credited with the development of the present day Limerick City Centre area known as Newtown Pery.

Architectural makeup

The street is architecturally Georgian in style like much of the Limerick City Centre area. There was a major fire on William Street in May 1860. Prior to the construction of the Limerick Southern Ring Road the street formed part of the N24 route between Limerick &

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. It is now part of the R527 road.

References

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