King John's Castle (Limerick, Limerick, Ireland) Siege, 1642
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Name (Latin)
King John's Castle (Limerick, Limerick, Ireland) Siege, 1642
Coordinates
-8.6238 -8.6238 52.6653 52.6653 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing topical name
Sieges Ireland
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Great Britain
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Wikidata:
Q493920
Library of congress:
sh 00009502
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: 00052970: Wiggins, K. Anatomy of a siege : King John's Castle, Limerick, 1642, 2001:CIP galley ("In the early months of 1642, families and friends likewise streamed into the castle ... When the Munster army of the Irish rebellion was admitted to the city, the Protestant and Anglo-Irish citizenry of Limerick had only one possibility of protection, and it was to the king's castle they fled)
- Killanin, M. Shell guide to Ireland, 1962:p. 349 (Limerick: in 1642 the town was captured after a siege by a Confederate Catholic force and remained in Confederate hands until Oct. 1651)