Blind US campaigner hails Clock Gate tower tour

A blind disability rights campaigner has endorsed an east Cork heritage attraction as “the most recommendable museum for visually impaired people” he ever visited.

Blind US campaigner hails Clock Gate tower tour

Glynn Langston, from Louisiana in the US, made his observation after a volunteer tour guide at Youghal’s Clock Gate tower made an exceptional effort to provide him with an authentic tour of the 18th-century monument. Dorothy Heaphy built a Lego replica of Youghal as a 16th century walled port to compensate for the visual map that commences the tours.

She also circled a cardboard juice bottle with elastic bands, using Lego for windows, to indicate the tower’s four floors, before adding an eggshell for the dome.

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