Crescent College

Crescent College Comprehensive SJ is a secondary school located on a section of 40 acres (162,000 m²) of parkland at Dooradoyle, Limerick, Ireland. The college is one of a number of Jesuit schools in Ireland. The first Jesuit School in Ireland was established at Limerick in 1565 by the Apostolic Visitor of the Holy See, David Woulfe SJ. Woulfe was closely related to the city's merchant aristocracy and it was probably for this reason that the city was chosen as a base for the Irish mission. However Limerick was a wealthy and fortified trading port, and geographically proximite to the independent Earldom of Desmond, where it was well known that the Jesuits were intriguing with the 13th Earl, James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald. The establishment...