{"id":339,"date":"2023-07-20T19:47:40","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T19:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10119\/?p=339"},"modified":"2023-07-20T19:47:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T19:47:40","slug":"tree-carving-by-tommy-craggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost:10119\/tree-carving-by-tommy-craggs\/","title":{"rendered":"TREE CARVING BY TOMMY CRAGGS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A WORK IN PROGRESS IN APRIL 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-vivid-green-cyan-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-background is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>I photographed the finished work recently [18 July 2023] but was not happy with the images so I plan to visit again before the end of the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tree carving in my photographs is located at the north east corner of St Anne&#8217;s Park, Raheny, where Clontarf Road and Watermill Road meet. It is a 10-metre tall Monterey cypress tree that was once dying. In 2018, Dublin City Council decided that the tree had to be taken down for safety reasons. However, before it was felled, artist Tommy Craggs was commissioned to carve a series of wildlife sculptures into the tree. 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