St Brendans Cathedral

The Cathedral of St. Brendan, Loughrea, is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Clonfert. Though designed in neo-gothic style, it arguably homes the maximum huge series of arts and crafts and Celtic Revival artifacts of any single building in Ireland. Its maximum noteworthy characteristic is the enormous series of stained glass home windows via the Dublin based An Tur Gloine studio.

There also are 24 embroidered banners, in most cases depicting Irish saints as well as vestments via the Dun Emer Guild. Sculptors represented are John Hughes and Michael Shortall, and the architect William Alphonsus Scott also contributed designs for metalwork and woodwork. The basis stone became laid on 10 October 1897 and the shape was finished in 1902; most of the interior capabilities date from the first decade on the 20th century excluding the stained glass windows which continued to be commissioned up till the 1950s.