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Carrickfergus Castle
$22.00
Eight centuries on a rocky promontory at the northern edge of Belfast Lough. John de Courcy laid the first stones in 1177, and what he built is still the shape of the place: the keep, the curtain wall, the inner ward. The town of Carrickfergus grew up around it. Travellers driving up the coast from Belfast see the keep before they see anything else, the way you'd see a mountain. People sit on the seafront on summer evenings and let the wind off the lough do what it does.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.