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Spanish Arch Galway
$22.00
The remains of a 1584 wall at the mouth of the River Corrib, where the river hands itself to Galway Bay. The arches once protected quays where Spanish ships unloaded wine and salt; that's where the name comes from. The Lisbon earthquake's tsunami took most of the structure in 1755, and what's left is the part Galway kept. On a clear afternoon people sit on the grass with chips, watching the swans, watching the Long Walk's painted houses across the water. The Atlantic is half a kilometre off and on a still day the sound of it carries across the grass.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.