Sligo Cathedral

The Roman Catholic cathedral of the diocese of Elphin, a large Romanesque revival church completed in the 1870s in the centre of Sligo town. Built of local limestone with a tall central tower, it is admired for its stained glass and the rounded arcades of the interior. It serves as the mother church for a wide rural diocese in the north-west. Standing near the ruined medieval abbey of the same town, the cathedral represents the confident church building of the nineteenth-century Catholic revival.