sentences:  With the expansion of Limerick from 1990, Annacotty has been swallowed up into the rapidly growing suburb of Castletroy.The N7, which originally ran through the main street, by passed the village as it was then, in 1980 when a new bridge was built over the Mulkear 100m downstream.That, in turn, was superseded by the building of the Limerick Southern Ring Road which crossed the river upstream at Ballyclough.