Cow art livens up ‘long acre’ on new dual carriageway

LIMERICK’S place in the dairy industry has been acknowledged in attractive roadside artwork on the newly opened N7 Southern Ring Road.

As motorists approach Limerick City, they pass a herd grazing the “long acre’, and wending their way homewards beside the new €100m dual carriageway - very appropriate in the county where our first co-op creamery was established more than a century ago deep in the Golden Vale.

The landmark artwork of life size cows in silhouette, each measuring six feet high and nine feet long, is the work of Irish-American artist Jim Collins, based in Chatanooga, Tennessee in the USA. He was the winner of a competition which attracted national and international entries for the design of suitable artwork for the new road.