TULACH A' tSOLAIS.MONUMENT, OULART HILL, COUNTY WEXFORD County Wexford (Irish: Contae Loch Garman) is a maritime county in the south-east of Ireland, in the province of Leinster. Area: 2,352 km² (908 mi²). , IRELAND An austere monument in pastoral Wexford landscape commemorates history and proffers hope for the future. Oulart Hill is the site of a new monument in County Wexford designed by Ronald Tallon of Scott Tallon Walker Introduction Scott Tallon Walker is an architecture practice with its head office in Dublin, Ireland, and further offices in London, Galway and Cork. It is the largest architecture practice in Ireland. Architects, in collaboration with sculptor Michael Warren Michael Warren may refer to a number of persons:
n. pl. bi·cen·ten·a·ries See bicentennial. bi  cen·ten of the 1798 rebellion against English rule, a precious moment when Irish liberty seemed possible, for it was a time in the latter part of the eighteenth century, and in the aftermath of the French Revolution, when revolutionary influences from France and North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. were being felt in Ireland. One consequence of the uprising was the establishment of the Wexford Republic which lasted three weeks before nationalist defeat at Vinegar Hill Vinegar Hill could refer to:
Placed at the top of rising ground, at the end of a long walk (for there is no road), the monument is a grassy mound bisected by a deep passage open to the sky. Measuring 900mm in width (the scheme conforms to a basic 900 x 900mm module), the passage traces a line between Oulart and Vinegar Hills, running four degrees off the cardinal east-west points of the compass (Naut.) the thirty-two points of division of the compass card in the mariner's compass; the corresponding points by which the circle of the horizon is supposed to be divided, of which the four marking the directions of east, west, north, and south, are called cardinal points, and . Sheer flanking walls frame Vinegar Hill on the west, and the rays of the rising and setting sun. On either side, the austere passage leads to a chamber. This is a double cube paved with granite slabs, lined with concrete panels (the pattern of bolt holes being the only decoration), and split by the great chasm of light. Inside the chamber are two horizontal sculptures by Warren, curving planes of 200 year old Irish oak placed in deference to the Golden Mean. In the soft pastoral landscape, the grave and abstract simplicity of the monument is powerful. The monument commemorates courage: and a moment when people of different denominations in Ireland were united. In respecting the past, it holds out hope for the future. Tulach a' tSolais, meaning the Mound of Light, is intended as a symbol of enlightenment. 1 Grass mound bisected by deep passage. 2 Passage running east-west to frame Vinegar Hill. 3 Double-cubed chamber paved with granite slabs and set with Michael Warren's sculptures of Irish oak. Architect Scott Tailor Walker Architects, Dublin Concept Ronald Tallon,, Michael Warren Project architect Brian Foley Structural engineer Ove Arup Sir Ove Nyquist Arup CBE, MICE, MIStructE, (born at Newcastle upon Tyne in 1895 and died in 1988) was a leading Anglo-Danish engineer, the founder of the internationally important firm of Arup and generally considered the foremost engineer of his time. & Partners Landscape architect Charles Funks Associates Photographs Peter Cook/VIEW |
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