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History of Limerick : ウィキペディア英語版 | History of Limerick
The history of Limerick, stretches back to its establishment by the Vikings as a walled city on King's Island (an island in the River Shannon) in 812, and its charter in 1197. A great castle was built on the orders of King John in 1200. It was besieged three times in the 17th century, resulting in the famous Treaty of Limerick and the flight of the defeated Catholic leaders abroad. Much of the city was built during the following Georgian prosperity, which ended abruptly with the Act of Union in 1800. The depression has lasted since, apart from a brief hiatus around the end of the last century. Today the city has a growing multicultural population. ==Name== ''Luimneach'' originally referred to the general area along the banks of the Shannon Estuary, which was known as ''Loch Luimnigh''. The original pre-Viking and Viking era settlement on Kings Island was known in the annals as ''Inis Sibhtonn'' and ''Inis an Ghaill Duibh''. The name dates from at least 561, but its original meaning is unclear. Early anglicised spellings of the name are ''Limnigh, Limnagh, Lumnigh'' and ''Lumnagh'', which are closer to the Irish spelling. There are numerous places of the same name throughout Ireland (anglicised as Luimnagh, Lumnagh, Limnagh etc.). According to P W Joyce in ''The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places II'', the name "signifies a bare or barren spot of land". Similarly, others have suggested that the name derives from ''loimeanach'' meaning "a bare marsh"〔Spellissy, p. 18.〕 or "a spot made bare by feeding horses".〔 The ''Dindsenchas (The Metrical Dindsenchas III page 274)'', attempted to explain the name in a number of ways, connecting it particularly with ''luimnigthe'' ("cloaked") and ''luimnechda'' ("shielded").〔(Placenames Database of Ireland )〕
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