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Cathedral of Our Lady Assumed into Heaven and St Nicholas, Galway

Architect: Robinson Keefe
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The last large Roman Catholic cathedral in Ireland, and quite possibly the oddest in design. With Spanish overtones, and constructed in limestone, the cathedral is a weird stylistic amalgam of Romanesque with Renaissance influences.