People's Park, Limerick

[1] The park was officially opened in 1877; it was given to the People of Limerick in honour of Richard Russell, a prominent local businessman.

It was the then Earl of Limerick in the 1870s who granted a 500-year lease of Pery Square and the surrounding grounds to the city's corporation under certain conditions.

These included an agreement that no political or religious meetings were allowed to be held in the park and bands were not to play there on a Sunday.

[citation needed] The park boasts a number of interesting items including a memorial upon a giant pillar to Thomas Spring Rice, MP for the city of Limerick from 1820–1832,[2] a 19th-century bandstand, an ornate drinking fountain (one of only two on the island of Ireland) and two gazebos.

Bus Éireann Routes 301, 304A and 306 serve the park on its Mallow Street side and Boherbuoy.