St. Clement's College is a secondary school in Limerick, beside the Mount Saint Alphonsus Church and Monastery.
St. Clement's was founded in 1884, as a Juniorate for the Redemptorist Congregation to ensure that they had sufficient numbers of educated young men entering the seminaries.
In the late 1960s the import of Vatican II, the introduction of free education and the increase of the urbanisation of Limerick, led to huge changes in the rule and function of the Redemptorists in the school.
In 1976 it was decided by the Chapter of the Redemptorist Congregation to turn the college into an open day school for boys. Now boasting a brand new campus and splendid new buildings the enrolment is 500 boys.
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