Works underway to help conserve the walls of Limerick city.
Work has been carried out to round off the ends of the city walls in the Charlotte Quay area of Limerick. The walls are seven and a half feet thick at their base and five feet wide at the top. These walls have withstood the sieges during the Williamite War in Ireland between 1690 and 1691.
Jim Kemmy a stone mason and elected member to Limerick City Council has been entrusted with the job of topping off the walls. Jim Kemmy works for Limerick Corporation and is also chairman of the National Monuments Advisory Committee.
The walls themselves, of course, rate high on the list of the things worth preserving in Limerick.
There are also plans for a new city hall to be built on a site overlooking the city's walls.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 29 September 1975. The reporter is Dermot Mullane.
