St. Patrick's Cathedral, Skibbereen
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Skibbereen Skibbereen (; ) is a town in County Cork, Ireland. It is located in West Cork on the N71 national secondary road. The River Ilen runs through the town; it reaches the sea about 12 kilometres away, at the seaside village of Baltimore. Located ...
,
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, is
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of the
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in the Diocese of Cork and Ross. It was the seat of the former Diocese of Ross, but lost cathedral status when the see was merged with the
Diocese of Cork The Diocese of Cork was established in the seventh century. The diocese of Cork was one of the twenty-four dioceses established at the Synod of Rathbreasail on an ancient bishopric founded by Saint Finbarr in the sixth-century. On 30 July 1326, P ...
in 1958.


Architecture

The church was designed by architect Michael Augustine O'Riordan of Doneraile in the
neoclassical style Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity. Neoclassici ...
. The tympanum of the façade is topped by a
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. The interior is also neoclassical, but has an uneven appearance due to tunneling in
transept A transept (with two semitransepts) is a transverse part of any building, which lies across the main body of the building. In cruciform ("cross-shaped") cruciform plan, churches, in particular within the Romanesque architecture, Romanesque a ...
s. The Tabernacle had an altarpiece of the Irish painter Samuel Forde, now preserved in the church of St. Barrahane in
Castlehaven Castlehaven () is a civil parish in County Cork, Ireland. It is located in West Cork, approximately 45 miles south-west of Cork City on the coast. The civil parish includes the town of Castletownshend and the hamlets of Rineen and Tragumna. Th ...
. The foundation stone for the present structure was laid in 1825, intended as a parish church in the Diocese of Cloyne and Ross. The original building was completed in 1826. The episcopal see was transferred to the parish under Bishop Michael O'Hea, and his successor, William Fitzgerald, carried out major improvements in the early 1880s. Additional renovations were made in 1950 and 2005.


See also

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References


External links


Parishes of Skibbereen & Rath and The Islands official site
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