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