Annual Report 2005 - English Version ( pdf file - 3340 kb in size)

LIMERICK COUNTY PROFILECounty Limerick , situated in the Mid-West of Ireland, dates backto the year 1210 when King John of England set up the first 12Irish Counties , of which Limerick was one. It is an ancient and richland. Its countryside is pleasing to the eye from the mountainsof Mullaghareirk in the South-West; the Ballyhoura and GalteeMountains in the South-East and the Sliabh Felim Mountains in theNorth-East; along the Golden Vale through to the tidal estuary of theRiver Shannon.The County itself comprises an area of approximately 2,735 squarekilometres and contains 119 civil (i.e. pre-Reformation) parishes, 58ecclesiastical parishes, 136 electoral divisions, 1,938 townlands, 5 localgovernment electoral areas and 2 Dáil Constituencies, East and WestLimerick. The total population of the County was 121,281 (Census2002) which showed an increase of 7.3% since 1996.2