Treaty of Limerick

Treaty of Limerick

The Treaty Stone, reputedly the location of the treaty signing.
Signed	3 October 1691
Location	Limerick
Original signatories	Civil Articles Sir Charles Porter Sir Thomas Coningsby Baron de Ginkell Earl of Lucan Viscount Galmoye Sir Toby Butler Nicholas Purcell Garrett Dillon Military Articles Baron de Ginkell de Tessé D'Usson Latour Monfort Earl of Lucan Viscount Galmoye Mark Talbot Nicholas Purcell
Parties	Ireland Jacobites
Languages	English

The Treaty of Limerick (Irish: Conradh Luimnigh), signed on 3 October 1691, ended the 1689 to 1691 Williamite War in Ireland, a conflict related to the 1688 to 1697 Nine Years' War. It consisted of two separate agreements, one with military terms of surrender, signed by commanders of a French expeditionary force and Irish Jacobites loyal to the exiled James II. Baron de Ginkell, leader of government forces in Ireland, signed on behalf of William III and his wife Mary II. It allowed Jacobite units to be transported to France, the diaspora known as the Flight of the Wild Geese.

The other set out conditions for those who remained, including guarantees of religious freedom for Catholics, and retention of property for those who remained in Ireland. Many were subsequently altered or ignored, establishing the Protestant Ascendancy that dominated Ireland until the Catholic emancipation in the first half of the 19th century.^[1]