Atlas plate · Ireland and Wales, late Georgian
Plas Newydd
They leave Kilkenny and keep a household in Wales for fifty years.
From one shore toward the other. A path of relation, not a lineage.
From
Kilkenny
Between
family, convent, marriage as other people imagined it
Toward
Llangollen
Placement is approximate where the record is not a surveyor.
- From
- Kilkenny
- Toward
- Llangollen, and Plas Newydd in the vale
- Between
- the Irish Sea, a second attempt, a life made on the far side
- Distance
- about 250 km of water and road
- Obstacle
- family, convent, marriage as other people imagined it
- Beloved
- one another, in the language of friendship they chose
- Approximate route
- Ireland to Wales, a crossing they had to make twice
- Boundary crossed
- a house they did not want for a house they kept
- What stands between them
- the sea, and fifty years of mornings