A cathedral full of medieval relics Christchurch is located on a site of a wooden church built in 1038 by Sitric Silkbeard, the first Norse King of Dublin. This was replaced by a [...]
The last great stone cathedral to be built in Europe The Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and St Nicholas is more commonly known as Galway Cathedral. This site, on the banks [...]
The second longest cathedral in Ireland This was the location of a 6th-century monastery founded by St Canice Cathedral was built between 1202 and 1285 and is the second-longest and one of the [...]
Armagh's eclectic Cathedral This is reputedly the site of an ancient ringfort where St Patrick founded a church in 445AD. Patrick called it 'My Sweet Hill' and said that it should have pre-eminence [...]
Ireland's largest Cathedral This is the site of what is reputedly the earliest Christian site in Ireland. There has been a church here since the 5th century and in 1191 it was raised [...]
Limerick City's oldest building The site of St Mary's Cathedral was once the location of a structure called a Thingmote. This was a Viking meeting place that dates to 970 AD and was [...]
One of Ireland's grandest Cathedrals St Eugene was reputedly an early Irish monk from Dublin who foretold the coming of St Columba. Columba did come and over time his monastery grew large and became [...]
Designed by one the greatest Victorian architects St. Aidan's Cathedral was designed by the gifted Victorian architect Augustus Welby Pugin (1812 – 1852) and was once the largest Cathedral in Ireland. Pugin is [...]
The first Cathedral to be built in the British Isles after The Reformation St Columb's Cathedral was built in 1633 at the highest point in Derry City on the site of a former Cistercian [...]