Corlea Trackway

Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.

Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.

Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.

The Corlea Trackway sits on the Mountdillon bogs in south County Longford, in the Irish midlands, about a kilometre east of Keenagh village and a few miles south of Lough Ree. The visitor centre is operated by the Office of Public Works.

The oak used to build the road was felled in the winter of 148 BC, dated by dendrochronology. That places the trackway in the late Iron Age, more than two thousand years old, and makes it the largest togher of its kind found in Europe.

Oak planks, roughly three to three-and-a-half metres long and fifteen centimetres thick, laid transversely across long oak runners spaced about 1.2 metres apart. Birch was used for parts of the underframe. The full road stretched more than two kilometres across the bog.

Bord na Móna peat-cutters uncovered the oak in 1984 while industrially extracting peat from the Mountdillon bogs. Archaeologist Barry Raftery of University College Dublin led the excavation and the dendrochronological dating that established the 148 BC felling date.

Raised peat bogs are acidic, oxygen-poor, and cold. Those conditions stop the bacteria and fungi that normally decay wood. The trackway also sank into the peat shortly after being built, so it was sealed below the surface of the bog for two millennia.

Scholars are still arguing about that. Barry Raftery proposed it was a ceremonial or processional way rather than ordinary traffic, possibly linking the ritual centre at the Hill of Uisneach with the royal site of Rathcroghan in Connacht. It may also have been a practical bog-crossing built on an unusually lavish scale.

Yes. An eighteen-metre section is on permanent display indoors at the visitor centre near Keenagh, in a humidity-controlled hall that keeps the bog-saturated oak from drying out. Admission is free and the centre is open daily from mid-March to early November.

It has been a meaningful gift for visitors with County Longford or south-Roscommon roots, and for anyone with an interest in Iron Age Ireland. The trackway is one of the great archaeological finds of the Irish midlands. A Keepsake or Small with a handwritten note from the studio carries well.

The piece reads in earthy browns and bog-gold with deep green underlight. It sits well in Mountain-modern, Earthy Maximalist, and Heritage-modern rooms, and pairs naturally with oak, linen, and wool. The colours read warm in any room that already leans toward natural materials.

Yes. Heritage-modern is moving toward genuine cultural artefacts rendered in painted form, rather than mass-produced prints, and Earthy Maximalist rooms read browns and bog-greens warmly. The Corlea piece slots into both because the subject is a real two-thousand-year-old object.

Above a sofa, a single Large or a four-tile Mural reads at the right scale. Above a console table, a Medium centred reads more like a curated object than wall art. For a feature wall, a nine-tile Mural carries the room.

Yes. Order the Dura Satin or Matte finish for any room with steam or splash, including bathrooms, kitchen backsplashes, and shower walls. Both finishes are scratch-resistant and clean with water. The Glossy finish is for dry display only.

A soft microfibre cloth and warm water. No abrasive scrubs and no harsh chemicals. The colour lives in the surface rather than on top of it, so the piece does not scratch off the way a printed tile would.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is original to a single studio in Knoxville, Tennessee. The painting is by Reid Wender, our curator, and is hand-finished in-house. No licensing, no third-party prints, no franchise. The atlas is ours.