Architectural fragment, Youghal-Lands, Co. Cork

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Architectural fragment, Youghal-Lands, Co. Cork

In a domestic garden in Youghal, a fragment of medieval stonework sits embedded in a garden wall, quietly outlasting the building it once belonged to.

The piece is a section of an ogee-headed window, the kind of arched opening characterised by a double curve that rises to a pointed tip, a form common in late medieval ecclesiastical architecture across Ireland. That it ended up as an ornamental fixture in someone's garden wall rather than a museum case or a ruin is the quietly odd part; it was not lost so much as quietly absorbed into everyday domestic life.

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