What is recorded here
Market Yard Gates is a memorial in County Kilkenny, Ireland. Perhaps the Downes Brothers shaped stone or metal into a threshold where ordinary people paused to remember someone absent. Maybe the gates stood at a busy yard entrance, forcing cart wheels and rushing feet to slow beside a name no longer spoken. Imagine a child pressing a palm against the cool surface while adults argued about mercy, belief or loss.
The work of the Downes Brothers...
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