Galway Cathedral

Galway's Cathedral (St Nicholas and the Assumption), on the right bank of the Corrib River, was consecrated in 1965. One of the largest churches in Ireland (300ft/100m long x 155ft/47m wide), it occupies the site of a prison in which many Irish patriots were confined; the cost of building it was met almost wholly by public subscription. Good mosaics in the side chapels.