“Church exterior, in an unknown location” = St. Mary’s Cathedral, Killarney
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Where: Munster, Co Kerry, Ireland
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When: 01 January 1910
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We haven't had an “unknown” O’Connor for a while, so let’s see what you make of this church. No sticky buns though, sorry. Morning Mary hid the key to the petty cash box when she went off on her holliers...
Photographer: Fergus O’Connor
Collection: Fergus O’Connor Collection
Date: 1900-1920
NLI Ref: OCO 248
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Photographer: Fergus O’Connor
Collection: Fergus O’Connor Collection
Date: 1900-1920
NLI Ref: OCO 248
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Killarney? https://www.flickr.com/photos/barbaravalerie/31069294636/ via https://www.flickr.com/photos/barbaravalerie/
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Found via Google Lens and Google Images, which ignored the nave being four bays/windows longer. See "design for the extension of the nave and completion of the tower"- catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000317703
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ Yes, spot on. St. Mary’s Cathedral, Killarney. Spire completed 1907
suckindeesel
https://flic.kr/p/zzppq2 via Murphman61 St. Mary’s designed by Pugin, said to be inspired by Ardfert
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Via Trove from 1846 - "... Whilst Valentia slate from Kerry is used in the Houses of Parliament for roofing, the proprietors of the Roman Catholic Cathedral at Killarney, within forty miles of Valentia, are importing slate from Wales, a distance of six hundred miles ..." See - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12901245?searchTerm=ca...
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ Money no object, and within living memory of the Famine
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And the wholly imaginary sticky buns go to the amazing https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia/! Off to sound the Location Identified COOEE in his honour...
Niall McAuley
The NIAH dates the extension to 1908-1912
Niall McAuley
The DIA says First coign of extension of nave and aisles and of completion of tower and spire laid 15 Nov 1908.
Niall McAuley
COIGN is my new word for today: a projecting corner or angle of a wall.
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A couple of priests were fund raising in Australia 1909/1910 - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/75305268 "... The appeal to Australia is for £5000, which is only £1000 more than the amount found by the parishes of the diocese, and Father O'Connor was able to testify to the kindness and generosity with which he has everywhere been met. ..."
Bernard Healy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ It was begun before the famine, during the famine what was already built was used as a hospital & the grounds of tbt cathedral were used as a burial ground.
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ Mark 10:21-22 Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said, "You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me." When he heard this, he was shocked and went away grieving, for he had many possessions.
Bernard Healy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make - the Cathedral & the various schools, convents & other buildings on the surrounding land (given by Lord Kenmare) were & are at the service of the poor. The point I’m making is that when the partially-completed building was needed as a hospital, it was used as a hospital. When that need passed, it was completed as a house of worship, for the benefit of the entire Catholic population. It might not make sense to you, but to the people of the time, that was important.
Niall McAuley
Is it odd that the finished building is asymmetrical? The side chapel/porches on each side are in different positions...
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ I’ve seen the equivalent in many third world Arab s-holes, where the only decent building is the local mosque. Same here, local slate wasn’t good enough, so had to be imported from Wales. This within living memory of the Famine, when many were still living in mud cabins. However, the poor parishioners still had to foot the bill. “Yet stop I did: in fact I often do, And always end much at a loss like this, Wondering what to look for; wondering, too, When churches fall completely out of use What we shall turn them into, if we shall keep A few cathedrals chronically on show, Their parchment, plate, and pyx in locked cases, And let the rest rent-free to rain and sheep. Shall we avoid them as unlucky places?” - Phillip Larkin
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Google Earth Link earth.app.goo.gl/ptSyHy #googleearth
Bernard Healy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley I'm not sure if I'm answering your question, but the different chapels/porches have different functions. The chapel at the south-west was the Cathedral's mortuary chapel. This is where bodies would be received prior to funerals. You'll see that it has its own entrance door. I think it was added on during the early 20th century extensions. The chapel protruding to the west of the north trancept was the Cathedral baptistry. That would have been seen as a more essential feature of the church than the mortuary chapel and is visible in our pre-extension story. Finally, the part of the cathedral that sticks out at the north east of the Cathedral is the sacristy - that's where clergy would put on their vestments, and all needed for relgious ceremonies would be stored and prepared. That was located there so as to be near the High Altar at the East end of the Cathedral.
Niall McAuley
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bernardhealy It is the mortuary and baptistry I am thinking of, why not opposite one another symmetrically? The architects clearly did not have OCD.
Bernard Healy
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ I can’t say for certain, but I have a few ideas. Firstly, they were not built at the same time. The Baptistry dates - I think - from the original building of the cathedral. The mortuary chapel from the extension works in the early 20th century. So the question becomes why not build the mortuary chapel opposite the Baptistry? This would have involved knocking through walls that had been standing for a half-century or more. It was much more convenient to add it on when building the extension as part of the same project. Also, unlike the Baptistry, the mortuary chapel needed an external door - from my own knowledge of the cathedral, a mortuary chapel with its own entrance located symmetrically opposite the Baptistry just wouldn’t make sense - it’d bring extra foot-traffic to a location very near one of the busier entrances of the cathedral. Putting it where it is would lead to less congestion. That’s speculation on my behalf, but I think it’s reasonably well-informed speculation.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley I have tagged Coign.
O Mac
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ A Coign stone is also know as a Quoin stone or Coin stone. Coin being French for corner.
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What have the Romans ever done for us? - uselessetymology.com/2017/11/15/the-etymology-of-coin/#:~.... Strikes me that this wonderful building was more than a little influenced by the 'Early English' architecture of the fabulous 13th century Salisbury Cathedral, where Augustus Pugin lived and worked from 1833. He could see it from the house he built. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Pugin#Salisbury - [https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia/279765340/]
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Thank you.