Bookstores in Limerick

Limerick, County Limerick has 11 bookstores on the map. That's 11 bookshops mapped around Limerick, each with its own shelves and specialties. The used sections are where the real bargains hide. Give yourself an hour minimum — bookshops are the one errand that always takes longer than planned.

This guide covers every bookstore we could verify in and around Limerick (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Eason and The Works, plus O' Mahonys. If a bookshop's missing from Limerick's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.

O'Connell Street - geograph.org.uk - 1818985 — Image: Graham Horn / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons

The Limerick bookstore lineup

11 in Limerick, plus 7 more around Limerick below:

Eason

Bookstore0.0 km from LimerickRun by Eason and Son Ltd.

Run by Eason and Son Ltd., Eason is Bookstore on O'Connell Street. Also worth knowing about Eason: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 09:00-17:45; Su 13:00-17:15; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.

O'Connell Street

Hours: Mo-Sa 09:00-17:45; Su 13:00-17:15

Phone: +353 61419588

Website

The Works

Bookstore0.1 km from Limerick

The Works — Bookstore, found on 17 O'Connell Street in Limerick.

17 O'Connell Street, Limerick

O' Mahonys

Bookstore0.1 km from Limerick

O' Mahonys — Bookstore, found on 120 O'Connell Street in Limerick. Also worth knowing about O' Mahonys: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 09:30-17:30; Su,PH off; it has a website with more detail.

120 O'Connell Street, Limerick

Hours: Mo-Sa 09:30-17:30; Su,PH off

Website

Quay Books

Bookstore0.2 km from Limerick

Quay Books is Bookstore on Arthur's Quay, Limerick.

Arthur's Quay, Limerick

O'Connell Street, Limerick, 1980 - geograph.org.uk - 6878098 — Image: Nigel Thompson / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons

Tony Clarke School Books

Bookstore0.2 km from Limerick

Tony Clarke School Books — Bookstore. Also worth knowing about Tony Clarke School Books: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 09:00-17:30; Su off.

Hours: Mo-Sa 09:00-17:30; Su off

Phil's Book Shop

Bookstore0.2 km from Limerick

Phil's Book Shop — Bookstore, found on Anne Street in Limerick. Also worth knowing about Phil's Book Shop: the map lists its hours as We-Sa 09:30-16:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.

Anne Street, Limerick

Hours: We-Sa 09:30-16:00

Phone: +353 85 789 5232

The Celtic Book Store

Bookstore0.3 km from Limerick

The Celtic Book Store is Bookstore.

Eason

Bookstore2.0 km from LimerickRun by Eason and Son Ltd.

Run by Eason and Son Ltd., Eason is Bookstore, found on Parkway Roundabout in Limerick. Also worth knowing about Eason: the map lists its hours as Mo-Sa 09:30-18:00; Su 12:00-18:00; it has a website with more detail.

Parkway Roundabout, Limerick

Hours: Mo-Sa 09:30-18:00; Su 12:00-18:00

Website

Crescent Bookshop

Bookstore2.9 km from Limerick

Crescent Bookshop is Bookstore.

Eason

Bookstore3.0 km from LimerickRun by Eason and Son Ltd.

Run by Eason and Son Ltd., Eason is Bookstore on Dooradoyle Road. Also worth knowing about Eason: the map lists its hours as Mo-We,Sa 09:00-18:00; Th-Fr 09:00-21:00; Su 12:00-18:00; it has a website with more detail.

Dooradoyle Road

Hours: Mo-We,Sa 09:00-18:00; Th-Fr 09:00-21:00; Su 12:00-18:00

Website

O'Mahony's

Bookstore3.9 km from Limerick

O'Mahony's is Bookstore. O'Mahony's also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Fr 08:30-17:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip.

Hours: Mo-Fr 08:30-17:00

Phone: +353 61 202048

What the map tells us about bookstores in Limerick

7 of the 11 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — bookshops keep civilised hours, so the listed ones are usually reliable.

4 have websites listed. Worth a look for events — readings and signings get announced there first.

The Limerick bookstore crawl

The efficient Limerick bookstore crawl strings these together: Eason on O'Connell Street, The Works on 17 O'Connell Street, O' Mahonys on 120 O'Connell Street, Quay Books on Arthur's Quay, Tony Clarke School Books, Phil's Book Shop on Anne Street, The Celtic Book Store, and Eason on Parkway Roundabout — 11 stops, one logical order. 3 more are listed below.

Bookstore tips for Limerick

The regulars' playbook for Limerick's bookshops:

Check the bargain carts outside at Eason. Sidewalk carts are the shop's clearance rack. A dollar a book, and the turnover is fast.
Visit during author events at The Works. Readings and signings are usually free and turn a bookshop into the best evening out in town.
Ask about the book club discount. Many shops discount book-club orders. If your club buys local, everyone wins.
Read the first page in the shop. The first-page test never lies. If it doesn't grab you standing there, it won't grab you at home.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Limerick — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new bookstore in Limerick can take a while to appear. If you spot one of the 11 that's closed, or a great bookstore we missed, the fix is to update the map itself — that's where this guide reads from.

We don't list prices — they change constantly and vary by edition. What we list is the where: real shops, verified by real mappers, in alphabetical order with no favourites.

If you run one of the 11 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.