Sparkling sandstone - boy!

I happened to go across the north side of Cork city this eve - a place where I spent several very happy years. The sandstone tower of the North Cathedral, at the top of Shandon Street, Cork, was sparkling in the evening sun.
The tower was added to the Cathedral in 1870 under the direction of Canon Foley. Having been built so soon after the Famine, it took an appeal to the Corkonians abroad to help pay the cost.