Note
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0000.5114
H. 33.0 W. 20.7
Note, manuscript. Titled Approaches to the Courthouses and City Gaol. Text: About 1859: Grand Jury directed Board of Superintendence to contribute 150 pounds to widen approach and remove some houses which dilapidated and disgrace neighbourhood, on condition that Limerick Corporation contribute same. Bishop contributed 50 pounds. 5 houses bought and vested in Corporation for public purposes only. Additional sum raised to build graveyard wall (to St Marys Cathedral), plan proposed by Mr Fogerty, to be esplanade for public walk or monument between church and street. Plot between that purchased and county and city courthouses owned by Corporation, let to Mr Sexton, lease up in a few years - Sexton wishes to swap for lease in another part of city. It is stated that occupiers of houses tenants from year to year, and the building materials on the premises would compensate them for giving immediate possession. A sum would be required to continue the retaining wall. The county derive benefit from city lighting, policing etc which they would have to provide themselves if courthouse not in city that they should contribute liberally. Blue sheet folded, written three sides. Formerly further folded in four, inscribed Approaches to the Court Houses on the cover thus formed. Watermarks: P.1: Britannia, unenclosed, over A C & S. P.2: A C & S / Vellum Foolscap / 1867. Formerly bound using glue. In handwriting of Maurice Lenihan? Among his papers
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