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St Mary's Cathedral, Killarney

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A flavour of the scale of the change envisioned by the architect Ray Carroll is given in this assessment: "the greatest single change was the removal of all the internal Victorian plasterwork. The original reredos, altar and screens were removed, the floor of the crossing was raised to the level of
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The width of the nave was based on the medieval models to be found throughout Ireland and England. The west end is very Irish in character, with three tall lancet windows and a very low entrance door beneath. The stonework used is an attractive mixture of brown and grey stone. The siting of the
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church is more like the siting of a priory than the siting of a cathedral, as the cathedral stands in a huge field instead of in the middle of the original settlement of Killarney.
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and the lack of available funds meant the work was stopped several times; when work recommenced in 1853, the interior decorations were designed by
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the former sanctuary, and a new sanctuary was created at the crossing. A new altar, pulpit, throne and chairs, all made of
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Peter Galloway, The Cathedrals of Ireland, The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast, 1992
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In 1973 the cathedral was "reordered" under the direction of Bishop
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St. Mary's Cathedral was designed by the renowned English architect
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Construction began in 1842 but was not continuous. The
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Killarney Cathedral

St Mary's Cathedral, Killarney is located in Ireland
52°03′31″N 9°31′03″W / 52.0586°N 9.5174°W / 52.0586; -9.5174
Denomination
Catholic Church
https://www.stmaryscathedral.ie/
Cathedral
Consecrated
Style
Gothic revival
Materials
Province
Cashel and Emly
Diocese
Kerry
Parish
Bishop(s)
Raymond Browne
cathedral
Diocese of Kerry
Killarney
County Kerry
Ireland
Augustus Welby Pugin
Ardfert Cathedral
great famine
James Joseph McCarthy
Dublin
Cobh Cathedral

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