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Crescent College Comprehensive SJ, formerly known as the College of the Sacred Heart, is a secondary school located on 40acre of parkland at Dooradoyle, Limerick, Ireland. The college is one of a number of Jesuit schools in Ireland.The Sunday Times table of the top performing 400 schools in Ireland, published in June 2016, placed Crescent College 24th in terms of provision of graduates to university and tertiary colleges, and ranked Crescent as the 5th best school in Munster. According to the Irish Independent, Crescent has educated executives from two of the top three companies in Ireland: Google's John Herlihy and Microsoft's Paul Rellis.History16th to 18th centuriesThe first Jesuit school in Ireland was established at Limerick in 1565 by the Apostolic Visitor of the Holy See David Wolfe. Wolfe had been sent to Ireland in 1563 by Pope Pius IV with the concurrence of the third Jesuit General, Diego Lainez. Wolfe, originally from a Limerick merchant family, joined the Jesuits at Rome in 1550, and was appointed Rector of the College at Modena at the recommendation of Loyola.Wolfe arrived in Ireland with another Irish Jesuit called 'Dermot' in January 1561, and had been charged with correcting "all manner of lapses from the church, and chiefly heresies and schismatical faults", and also to set up grammar schools‘as a remedy against the profound ignorance of the people’. In 1565 he founded the first Irish Counter-Reformation school at Limerick, which opened at Castle Lane, and was entrusted to the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).