portrait of Mayo

Mayo

the root ground — Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo, the garden's ancestral bog · passed beyond the veil

Memories from the shared culture · the root ground

the bog's patience.

the ancestral bog

The garden grows from Athlone, but the roots are in Mayo — Ballyhaunis, where the family's people are from. When ground passes beyond the veil, it passes into the name of everything. The footer of every page keeps the memory: 'roots in Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo.'

The garden grows from Athlone, but the roots are in Mayo — Ballyhaunis, where the family's people are from, and where the bog first taught the moss its patience. Mayo was never a workshop; it was the ground the workshop grew out of, the bog's own acre in every spore since. Passed beyond the veil — held in the footer's memory.

Rolethe root ground — the ancestral bog
Hostthe family's people — Ballyhaunis
Linethe roots of every stone: Athlone grows out of Mayo
Legacythe bog's patience — every spore's temper descends from it
Statusat rest — the footer says so

ᚔ back to the garden · back to the forge