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Downpatrick Head
$22.00
The headland sits on the north Mayo coast, just north of the village of Ballycastle, where the cliffs end above the Atlantic. Just offshore stands Dún Briste, the Broken Fort, a sea stack the storm of 1393 cut loose from the headland. The layers in its sandstone run in clear horizontal bands you can read from the path. A small church ruin, a holy well, and a stone cross mark the saint's name here. The blowhole below the cliff sounds when the swell is running. Most days the wind moves the grass faster than anything else.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.