For reasons of age and available time, my website has been vastly reduced in size – and the blog – alas, is no more. However, details of “Irish Follies and Whimsical Architecture”, and earlier books can still be found by clicking on the image below to be changed each weekend. Enjoy !
A mock castle of pride softened,
Whispers of the past.
The sham castle at Donaghadee, locally known as The Moat was built in the early 19th-century to store the gunpowder used for blasting the harbour.
In 2021 the Moat is home to a Camera Obscura, an ancient optical device in which light from an external scene passes through a lens or hole and strikes a surface inside a usually darkened room, where the scene is reproduced.
George Munday Creative 