St Patrick's and St Colman's Cathedral is the Catholic cathedral of Newry, built between 1825 and 1829. The former Cathedral of Christ the Redeemer in Dromore, reclaimed by the Anglicans, was burnt down during the Irish Rebellion of 1641, and rebuilt by Bishop Taylor 20 years later; the Catholic cathedral was then built. The cathedral, however, was moved 200 years earlier to Newry, the largest town in County Down, and strategically located at the end of Carlingford Lough.
St. Patrick's Cathedral was built between 1840 and 1904 to replace the medieval St. Patrick's Cathedral, which was recovered by the Church of Ireland during the Protestant Reformation. Construction of the Gothic Revival building began on St. Patrick's Day.
The Cathedral Church of Christ the Redeemer in Dromore was built in the mid 17th century. The first church on the site was the abbey church of the monastery founded by the future St Colman of Dromore around 510. Nothing remains of it, but it became the first cathedral in the diocese of Dromore. In 1870 the church was further enlarged with the addition of a baptistery and the location of the organ, and in 1899 an additional nave was added, giving the building its present layout.
St Macartan's Cathedral is the Catholic cathedral of Monaghan. It was built between 1861 and 1893 and is the only Catholic cathedral in the county. The architect James Joseph McCarthy (1817-1882) was in charge of the works and designed the cathedral in a 14th-century Gothic architectural style.
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