This Cathedral is regarded by many as Augustus Pugin’s finest work. Victorian Gothic in style, it has a lofty interior, long lancet windows and a spire 86.8m high. During the Famine, its construction was put on hold and the unfinished building was used as a hospital. Outside a Sequoia tree marks a mass grave from that time. Pugin died before the Cathedral was completed, but the work was carried on by his son, who said the cathedral had been his father’s favourite.
