Sarsfield Barracks, is an Irish Army

Irish Army

The Irish Army, officially named simply the Army is the main branch of the Defence Forces of Ireland. Approximately 8,500 men and women serve in the Irish Army, divided into three infantry Brigades...

 Barracks in Limerick City.

It houses both Permanent and Reserve Defence Forces

Reserve Defence Forces

The Reserve Defence Forces is the title given to the reserve components of the Irish Defence Forces. It comprises the Army Reserve and the Naval Service Reserve ....

 of the Irish Defence Forces

Irish Defence Forces

The armed forces of Ireland, known as the Defence Forces encompass the Army, Naval Service, Air Corps and Reserve Defence Force.The current Supreme Commander of the Irish Defence forces is His Excellency Michael D Higgins in his role as President of Ireland...

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Built in the late 18th Century (around 1795 when land acquired from J.T,. Monsell), the barracks was called New Barracks by the British Army

British Army

The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...

 and remained stationed there until the early 1920s.

Handed over following Irish independence, the barracks was named after Patrick Sarsfield, and is currently the Head Quarters of units of the Southern Brigade Reserve Defence Forces.

The barracks is surrounded by a stone walls and housing built (along Roden Street, Barracks Hill, Wolfe Tone Street) around or across from the walls.

There are three gates along the walls:

• Roden Street Gate at Barracks Hill - closed
• Scanlon Park and Sarsfield Park - wired mesh gate
• Lord Edward Street - main gate