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Rock of Dunamase
$22.00
A medieval ruin on a 46-metre limestone outcrop, rising out of flat midland farmland. The fortress here was old before the Normans arrived: Viking raiders sacked the original Dún Másc in 845. William Marshal's family built the stone castle that survives, around 1208. Cromwell's troops broke most of it in 1650. What stands now stands without a roof: gatehouses, curtain walls, the empty doorway of the keep. From the upper ward the Slieve Bloom Mountains sit on the western horizon. Most days, nobody else is on the path.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.