St Colmans Cathedral

The Cathedral Church of St Colman, commonly referred to as Cobh Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Cobh, Ireland. It is the cathedral church of the Diocese of Cloyne. It overlooks Cork harbour from a prominent position. Construction started out in 1868 and turned into no longer completed till over half a century later because of increases in costs and revisions of the unique plans. The architects have been Edward Welby Pugin and George Ashlin; creation started in 1868.

When Pugin died in 1875, Ashlin took on the services of a Dublin architect, Thomas Aloysius Coleman, to assist him in the of completion of the venture. The clerk of works turned into Charles Guilfoyle Doran, who supervised the undertaking until his demise in 1909, whilst the cathedral becomes almost entire. The cathedral become in the end consecrated on 24 August 1919 via the bishop of Cloyne, Robert Browne, in the presence of the archbishops Michael Logue, John Harty and Thomas Gilmartin.