Kindred Spirits
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Kindred Spirits is a historic site, at a modelled elevation of 4 m. Knockmealdown stands 792 m to the north-northeast, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Bailick Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. 44 named summits stand within 25 miles.
Nine stainless steel eagle feathers arranged in a circle, no two feathers being identical, forming a bowl shape to represent a gift of a bowl of food
The story
Kindred Spirits is a large stainless steel outdoor sculpture in Bailick Park in Midleton, County Cork, Ireland. Created by artist Alex Pentek, Kindred Spirits commemorates the 1847 donation by the Native American Choctaw people to Irish famine relief during the Great Famine, despite the Choctaw themselves living in hardship and poverty and having recently endured the Trail of Tears. While records of the exact amount of the donation vary, the figure usually given is US$170 (about $5,900 in 2025 inflation-adjusted dollars, though some methods indicate it could have been as high as $20,000 in 2015 dollars). In the U.S. coinage of the time, U.S.$170 meant 8.22 troy ounces of physical gold, or about US$14,000 in 2020 prices. The sculpture consists of nine 20-foot (6.1 m) stainless steel eagle feathers arranged in a circle, no two feathers being identical, forming a bowl shape to represent an empty bowl of food. With over 20,000 welds and taking a year to make, it was created by Alex Pentek at the National Sculpture Factory in Cork, with assistance to polish the finished work from students of the city's Crawford College of Art and Design, and installed in Bailick Park in 2015. The memorial was commissioned by Midleton Town Council, and was officially unveiled and dedicated in June 2017 by Chief Gary Batton, Chief of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Assistant Chief Jack Austin Jr., and Councillor Seamus McGrath, County Mayor of Cork, accompanied by a 20-strong delegation from the Choctaw Nation. A companion sculpture, Eternal Heart, was unveiled in Tuskahoma, Oklahoma in 2024 to further commemorate Choctaw-Irish relations.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 2017.
Wikidata Q23490309, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 2015
- Height
- 6.1 m
- Material
- steel
How to reach it
Overlooks nearby
- Old Head · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Bailick Park: 0.0 mi
- Kennedy Park: 0.4 mi
- Baby Walk: 0.5 mi
- Fair Green: 0.8 mi
- Historical 1800's Ruins of a Farm house: 2.6 mi
- WW1 Monument: 0.5 mi
- Edward Bransfield: 0.6 mi
- Nellie Cashman Monument: 0.7 mi
- John Walsh Memorial: 0.7 mi
- Midleton IRA Monument: 0.7 mi
- Fallen Horse and Rider: 0.4 mi
- Pikeman 1798: 0.7 mi
- Gooseboy and Flock of Geese: 0.7 mi
- Gyrators: 0.7 mi
- Sheep and Pillar: 0.8 mi
- Lady's Well: 4.0 mi
- Lady's Well: 4.9 mi
- Lady's Well: 7.2 mi
- Fainin's Well: 8.0 mi
- Kilgrania Well: 8.8 mi
- Salt Hill: 9.5 mi
- Devonshire's Hill: 9.5 mi
- Corrin Hill: 15.1 mi
- Knockaroura: 15.2 mi
- Tallow Hill: 16.1 mi
- Jameson Distillery Midleton: 0.6 mi
- Site of old school: 3.5 mi
- Water Pump: 3.7 mi
- US Naval Air Station USNAS Queenstown: 4.7 mi
- Fota Arboretum and Gardens: 5.5 mi
- Ballybrassil Beach: 4.0 mi
- Glenmore Strand: 4.3 mi
- Cuskinny: 5.0 mi
- Ballybrannigan Beach: 7.2 mi
- Ballycroneen Beach: 7.3 mi
- Coosheen Garden: 6.2 mi
- Soldiers Gardens: 8.3 mi
- Ashton Grove: 8.6 mi
- Centenary Garden: 11.0 mi
- Sandyhill Kitchen Garden: 11.1 mi
- Cobh Museum: 6.6 mi
- Heritage Centre: 6.6 mi
- Cobh Heritage Centre: 6.6 mi
- Passage West Maritime Museum: 7.3 mi
- Collins Barracks Military Museum: 12.3 mi
- Rostellen Woods picnic area: 4.2 mi
- Clogheenmilcon Nature Reserve Killeens End: 15.3 mi
- Life Space Park: 15.4 mi
- Clogheenmilcon Nature Reserve Blarney End: 15.8 mi
- Mocollop Picnic Site: 17.3 mi
- Cuskinny Marsh Bird Sanctuary: 5.0 mi
- Loughbeg Bird Reserve: 8.9 mi
- Clogheenmilcon Sanctuary: 15.9 mi
- N25 Picnic Site: 3.7 mi
- Pairc Ath Na hEorna: 18.5 mi
- Power’s Bridge: 17.1 mi
- Ballard Waterfall: 22.0 mi
- Lover's Leap: 24.7 mi
- Lover' Leap: 24.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Kindred Spirits. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knockmealdown | NNE 26° | 792.4 m | 24.8 mi |
| Knockshanahullion | NNE 17° | 653.3 m | 24.6 mi |
| Knocknalougha | NNE 20° | 629 m | 24.8 mi |
| Knocknalougha South Top | NNE 21° | 518.6 m | 23.9 mi |
| Farbreaga | NNE 13° | 518 m | 23.3 mi |
| Crow Hill | NNE 14° | 516.8 m | 23.3 mi |
| Knocknaskagh | NW 322° | 426.5 m | 17.7 mi |
| Seefin | NW 317° | 424 m | 18.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:37 | 18:01 | 18:45 |
| June solstice | 05:14 | 21:02 | 21:57 |
| September equinox | 07:19 | 18:49 | 19:34 |
| December solstice | 08:39 | 15:21 | 16:24 |
Local time (Europe/Dublin).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/5823257636
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