The preservation of St John's Square is to be part of Ireland's contribution to European Architectural Heritage Year.
Limerick Corporation has announced that St John's Square will be included as one of the special preservation and rehabilitation projects for European Archictectural Heritage Year in 1975.
St John's Square was designed by Francis Bindon, a portrait artist and architect from a County Clare landowning family. Construction started in 1751 and it was envisaged as a fashionable residential development for local aristocracy, country gentlemen and their families to stay when visiting the city.
St John's Anglican Church was built in 1851 on the site of a mediaeval church of the same name.
The rejuvenation of this historic part of Limerick includes the reconstruction of houses on the south side of the square for flats and doctors' surgeries, conversion of St John's Church into a museum space and the carrying out of improvement works at the adjacent St John's Cemetery.
Two derelict houses on the north side will be also be restored.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 14 July 1973. The footage shown here is mute.
