The Crescent () is a street in

Limerick Limerick ( ; ) is a city in western Ireland, in County Limerick. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and is in the Mid-West Region, Ireland, Mid-West which comprises part of the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region. W ...

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and is one of the highlights of Georgian Limerick. The area takes its name from the shape of the terraced buildings on both sides. The two sides combined give the street a distinctive

crescent A crescent shape (, ) is a symbol or emblem used to represent the lunar phase (as it appears in the northern hemisphere) in the first quarter (the "sickle moon"), or by extension a symbol representing the Moon itself. In Hindu iconography, Hind ...

oval shape. The Crescent was originally known as Richmond Place (after Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond). A monument to

Daniel O'Connell Daniel(I) O’Connell (; 6 August 1775 – 15 May 1847), hailed in his time as The Liberator, was the acknowledged political leader of Ireland's Roman Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century. His mobilisation of Catholic Irelan ...

; the 19th Century Irish political leader stands at the centre of The Crescent overlooking

O'Connell Street O'Connell Street () is a street in the centre of Dublin, Ireland, running north from the River Liffey. It connects the O'Connell Bridge to the south with Parnell Street to the north and is roughly split into two sections bisected by Henry ...

. On the west side is the Church of the Sacred Heart, a former

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church that closed in 2006. In 2012 the church was bought by a new religious order known as the

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who are currently restoring the church. Adjoining the Church of the Sacred Heart was the Crescent College run by the Jesuit Order. It is now located in Dooradoyle. The site is now occupied by Limerick Tutorial College, a fee paying private school. Offices, educational facilities (such as English schools) and some residential lettings occupy the Georgian buildings that line The Crescent.

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Route 304 serves The Crescent on both sides.

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