In the past I wrote about visiting a church and having fun. At another time I told you about going to confession, when for my penance I drank the black stuff…
Last week I was back in The Church and came away refreshed. 😉 Elly came to meet me and we walked round the area at the back of the building. It was at one time a very popular graveyard for the dearly departed members of St. Mary’s parish, a large and wealthy congregation.
By the 1940s, the large churchyard was being used as a playground, with the tombstones being removed to the further end of the yard. It was de-consecrated in April 1966, the Church of Ireland sold the graveyard to Dublin Corporation which later developed the site now known as Wolfe Tone Memorial Park. Why Wolfe Tone? Theobald Wolf Tone – United Irishmen Founder was baptised in St Mary’s Church, in 1763.
The park’s feeling of openness, perhaps because it is unfenced and accessible and allows for unimpeded shortcuts between the busier nearby streets, yet it maintains a separate identity from the paths on either side. An urban space with a variety if hard surfaces, which includes a large gravel area adorned with a cow.
How now bronze cow
City Cow ~ Bronze
Sculptor ~ Jackie McKenna.
I love the cow. Very beautiful. I think she might prefer a more promising grazing area though….
Nick, that was my first thought as I organised my camera. A young couple arrived with two small children and the father climbed on board the sculpture, then lifted the children up in front of him so that the wife could take a photo. Perhaps if the sculpture was in a park with a lawn, they may not have tried to do that.
For some reason this reminded me of the moron who won a Gold Medal at the Olympics. He was so proud of it he wanted it to last forever, so he had it bronzed.
Al, That gave me a good chuckle!
Nice cow … Umm! … Are you sure that old Wolf wasn’t a Hindu ? .. 😉
John, he was anything but!
Odd spot for a cow to rest . . . with no pasture in view. But I like the sculpture.
My first thoughts were did it fall off the back of a lorry? I likes the piece, so went ahead to photograph it. There was no indication of who, what when or why. I had go searching for information.
Ireland seems to have so many sculptures. Lovely.
Gigi, there are many more that I have not managed to photograph yet.
I like the cow with the frost bite tail, wishing she was in clover…
Brighid, a beauty like that deserves clover.
You know you are going blind when you read unstampeded and find a cow lying in the middle of the unstampeded area where many little hoofers have played. Or is that hoovers? This is a handsome cow, and I will share it with my cowgirl granddaughter.
The cow was lovely, but I thought it was rather out of place, on the gravel.
I see you were moooooved. *groan* couldn’t resist….. 😀
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The bronze cow is so unexpected! I am torn. I kind of like it, and at the same time think it’s a little oddly placed. That’s so often the way with art. It’s intended to be a bit provocative. I’m glad you shared it. I never would have guessed! LOL!
Debra, It as, as you say unexpected. No plaque to explain why it was there or who the sculptor was. It took several keyword searches to discover the information. The piece was actually, beautiful and life like.
I stumbled across, well nearly stumbled anyway, last week. Quite unexpected. I still don’t know why the poor thing is lying there though.