Lismore Cathedral, Anglican cathedral in Lismore, Ireland.
Lismore Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral built in stone in the town of Lismore, County Waterford, in the south of Ireland. The building has a central nave, a choir area, and several tomb monuments inside, including carved stone pieces from the medieval period.
The site was founded as a monastic centre in the 7th century and became one of the most important religious places in Ireland at that time. A fire in the 17th century destroyed the earlier structure, and Richard Boyle, the first Earl of Cork, paid for it to be rebuilt.
The cathedral gives its name to the town itself, since Lismore means 'great fort' in Irish, a reference to the religious settlement that once stood here. Visitors today can see carved stone panels inside the building that date back to the medieval period and are rarely found in such condition elsewhere in the region.
The cathedral sits in the centre of Lismore and is easy to reach on foot from most parts of the town. Visiting outside of service times gives you more freedom to look around the tombs and carved stonework at your own pace.
A tomb inside the building is dated 1543, making it one of the oldest surviving features in the structure. What makes this notable is that it survived the fire that destroyed much of the rest of the earlier building in the 17th century.
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