The Limerick Desmond League is an association football league featuring amateur, junior, youth and under-17 teams from the part of County Limerick west of the N20.

[note 1] The league was founded in January 1955 following a meeting at the Desmond Castle, Newcastle West.

In it early years the league also included teams from County Kerry.

In 1966 Joe Wickham initiated reforms that helped modernize the league and by 1969 it featured twenty teams.

[citation needed] The league also entered the Oscar Traynor Trophy after a number of years absence.