St Fin Barres Cathedral

Description

Saint Fin Barre’s Cathedral (Irish: Ardeaglais Naomh Fionnbarra) is a Gothic Revival three-spire Church of Ireland cathedral in the city of Cork. Opened in 1879, it was named for the patron saint of the City and diocese of Cork in Eire (Republic of Ireland). Saint Finbar, Finbarr, Finnbar, or Finnbarr, in Irish Fionnbharra, very often abbreviated to Barra, (c. 550–25 September 623) was Bishop of Cork and abbot of a monastery in what is now the city of Cork, Ireland. His feast day is 25 September.
Freehand sketch by Dai Wynn of the cathedral in which one spire is hidden behind another. In the foreground is the southern arm of the River Lee which, with its main northern arm, forms an island containing the commercial centre of Cork and several major public green spaces.

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