40 Days, 40 Churches

Day 24: St. Colman's Cathedral, Cobh, Co. Cork, Ireland

We wound up in Cobh on a Sunday morning on our way back to Killarney from Cork, and while we first intended just to nose around town, we wound up actually attending Mass here, given the timing. The wife was leery of doing so as she was wearing jeans, but enough of the locals were also in jeans, so she sucked it up this one time.

The cathedral itself is pretty impressive, and as the website linked above notes it sits in an ideal position, both to see and be seen. We went to Cobh originally to see some of the Titanic-related stuff and because it's generally recommended as a tourist stop. But you can't really miss the cathedral, and we figured it was worth the hike.

This was probably my favorite of all the churches we saw, as I like the architectural style and the interior wasn't too over the top.

Oddly, the Wikipedia article on St. Colman is better than the ones available on Catholic Online or the Catholic Encyclopedia. Or maybe it's not that odd, given the relative amounts of traffic for each site.