St. Crumnathy's Cathedral is a former cathedral in Achonry in County Sligo, Ireland."A New History of Ireland" T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F.J. Byrne and Cosgrove, A: Oxford, OUP, 1976
Dedicated to St Nathy,Whitley Stokes, Lives of Saints from the Book of Lismore (1890), p. xv (preface). it was formerly in the Diocese of Achonry,"Fasti ecclesiae Hibernicae : the succession of the prelates and members of the Cathedral bodies of Ireland" Vol 4 p97 Cotton, H: Dublin : James Charles & Son, 1878 and then the joint cathedral of Killala and Achonry. It was built in 1823, at a cost of £1066 with a grant from the Board of First Fruits, on the site of an earlier monastic settlement. It was one of three cathedrals in the Diocese of Tuam, Killala and Achonry until it was deconsecrated in 1998.
St. Crumnathy's Cathedral is a protected structure.
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