Today’s blog is proof positive that knowledge, even assumed, is merely connecting the dots of information. Dot 1 was inspired by curiosity. On one of my regular trips to Dunmanway, I spotted this unusual tiled band on a detached house on the Relief Road. The house was situated where one might expect a lodge but appeared to be a bit more grand than most lodges. Dot 2 was provided by the internet some weeks later when I went looking at mRNA and RECO and some more abbreviations/words on the tiles. I was quickly overloaded with matters well beyond my scientific knowledge. I then knew that the tiled band related to DNA but was really no nearer why it was on someone’s house. Dots 3 and 4 fell instep almost together. I read of the West Cork Education Centre project, ’What is Life’, which was in conjunction with Prof John Atkins of U.C.C. Atkins is a name on a few buildings in Dunmanway. A question of a local confirmed that the lands upon which this ‘lodge’ sits are of the Atkins family. I now suppose that Prof Atkins, or a relation, is responsible for the writing of the wall – the detail on the façade of the building. I think I have solved my own question. I do like the tiles. |