Work to stablise centuries-old wall around St Brigid's Cathedral in Kildare Town

Repairs are being carried out on part of the ancient wall surrounding St Brigid's Cathedral in Kildare Town.

The wall is being carefully dis-assembled in order to reinforce its structure at Firecastle Lane.

A rusting stabilising barrier had been erected outside the wall for several years to support it.

The Norman-style St Brigid's Cathedral dates back almost 800 years to 1223.

However the site is believed to have occupied an original pagan shrine to the goddess Brigid and the later early Christian foundation and church of St. Brigid.

The Cathedral was reduced to ruins in the 1600s but restored in the 19th and 20th Centuries.