Dublin, Ireland - Christ Church Cathedral (Part 3) - August 2025

The catacombs of Christ Church were built between 1172 and 1173. It houses several artifacts, as well as the gift shop. Hot take - I think more gift shops should be in catacombs. Controversial, I know.

Before I move on to the photos, I figured I would do a power ranking of the churches and cathedrals we saw in Ireland. This sort of changes by the day, so this isn't exactly in stone. 1. Clonard Monastery

2. Christ Church Cathedral

3. St. Patrick's Cathedral

4. Galway Cathedral

There is likely a fair bit of recency bias in this list due to how recently I looked at photos of each.

I think this is a statue of either Charles I or Charles II from the 18th century. There are also the mummified remains of a cat and rat that died inside of a piano mid-chase, but my photo of that didn't turn out even a little.

A view from the catacombs toward the Irish Magna Carta.

Irish monks wrote this Irish version of the Magna Carta, stored in the catacombs.

Full disclosure, I don't really remember what this is. But here it is for you to also not know what you're seeing.