Maria Tanner Cohen

Celestial Ground collects a time spent on the limestone plateau of the Burren in Co. Clare. The Burren’s grey, folding lunar landscape and deep fissures rested on my imagination waiting to be revisited in one way or another.
The Burren, an Boireann, meaning great rock as Gaeilge, was first settled some 6,000 years ago by Neolithic peoples and  is home to almost 100 recorded Ring forts, Portal dolmens, Cairns and Megalithic chambers.

These sites were of sacred significance to our ancient ancestors. By mapping the movements of the Sun, Moon and Stars these ancient sites became conduits of heavenly and earthly power that would heal and protect the land and its people.