Book
Collection object
2001.0010
H. 19.0 W. 12.8 T. 1.5
Book, A Historic and Descriptive Sketch of St. Mary's Cathedral, Limerick, by Francis Meredyth, 3rd edition, printed by G. McKern & Sons, Printers & Publishers, 1887. 64 pp plus 14 at front plus binding plus hard covers. Covers grey-green, front with title in gold gothic script above and below a sketch of the cathedral from the SE, in double black border, incorporating cross in circles. 1 blank; frontispiece a print showing the chancel; title including the chapter seal (virgin holding child) and a verse by Milton; blank; 2pp poem St Marys Cathedral by Rev S.R. Wills, Rector of Rathkeale and a canon of the cathedral; foreword by author; blank; note on 1st & 2nd editions with list of people who made commendatory notices of it; Chronological order of the bishops of Limerick, with diocesan arms; stuck in corrigenda; 4pp index including note that east window by James Pain was taken down in 1860 and presented to St Michaels Church; 64 pp. text including appendix with notes on the capitular seal, the Seal of the Precentorship, the arms of the diocese, St Munchin not a bishop, episode of Whitfield, the methodist, derivation of name Limerick, the Grianan or Summer Palace, the founders of the cathedral bells, the singular sculpted stone, the will of the great Earl of Thomond, various recent additions and improvements. Illustrations in text (drawings): West doorway (p.4), lid of Donal Mor O'Brien's stone coffin.
McKerns (printer & publisher)