History
Founded under the will of Mrs Hannah Villiers in 1821, the school has a Protestant ethos and is managed jointly by the headmistress and a board of governors. The school relocated from Henry Street to its current location on the Tivoli campus on the North Circular Road less than one mile from Limerick city centre in 1953.
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