The most beautiful religious buildings Ireland

Built on the site of a former Franciscan monastery that gave its name to the street, this neoclassical church was built in 1830 to commemorate the emancipation of Catholics in Ireland.

Majestic ruins of an abbey founded in 1253 by Felim O'Conor, King of Connacht (left on the left of the entrance). In medieval times, Roscommon was a place of pilgrimage because the city would have held a piece of the Real Cross, and this abbey represented one of the most important Dominican centers in Ireland.

Abbey founded in 1225 by Dominican monks, his official name is Abbey of The Most Holy Trinity, but she took the nickname Black Abbey, the black abbey, because of the color of his monks' dress. After the monasteries were dissolved by Henry VIII of England (between 1538 and 1541), Black Abbey was turned into a court. Left abandoned after the passage of Cromwell in 1650, it was restored in the nineteenth century. The interest of the architecture is limited, apart from a superb arched ceiling of shining wood and two beautiful stained glass windows.

A Catholic church built between 1859 and 1864 by architect Charles Francis Hansom. Its interior presents colorful stained glass, an impressive organ and a magnificent wooden roof on which fourteen angels are sculpted. These carved elements were made with wood imported from the Black Forest in Germany.