
on your wall
Black Ball Head, Beara, Co. Cork
For a living room or above a sofa, Feature or Showcase sizes give the best impact. Unframed prints are perfect if you'd like to choose your own frame.
If in doubt, contact me!
Prints are made to order, so I can't take one back just because you've changed your mind, but if it arrives damaged or isn't what you ordered, I'll replace it at no cost. You can swap it within 30 days, though you'd cover the return postage.
The road out to Black Ball Head from Allihies makes you question your sat nav, your life choices, and eventually your suspension. It narrows and twists until you're fairly certain you've missed a turn. Then the hedgerows fall away and there's nothing but open Atlantic and a Napoleonic signal tower standing on the edge of a cliff.
Built in the early 1800s when a French invasion seemed genuinely imminent, the tower is part of a chain that dots the entire Irish coastline. This one is remarkably well preserved, perched on the tip of the headland with sheer drops on three sides. The men who manned it, scanning the horizon for French sails, must have cursed whoever assigned them here.
I'd wanted to photograph it from above for a long time, and this afternoon the conditions finally came together. Broken cloud letting warm, low light onto the headland while the rest of the coast sat in shadow. High tide, heavy swell, white water hammering the cliffs. From that height the whole peninsula reveals itself. Neat green fields running in orderly strips right to the cliff edge, then rock, spray, chaos. The tower sits exactly on that boundary between the farmed and the wild, looking impossibly small against the Atlantic beyond it. How did anyone spend a winter out there!
Read the story behind these photographs, a walk out along the Beara Peninsula.
Shipping is free once your order passes a threshold that depends on where it's going:
- Ireland: free over €75, otherwise €9
- UK and Europe: free over €150, otherwise €20
- US and Canada: free over €250, otherwise €35
- Rest of the world: a flat €100, whatever the order value
Your exact shipping cost is specific to your location and is shown to you before you finalize checkout.
We produce all our prints to order, so you can be sure you're getting the best quality work to hang on your wall. As a result, in busy times it can take a while to process the orders. In the worst case, which is generally during the peak months of July-September, it can take 4-6 weeks to receive large framed prints. Large canvases generally take 2-3 weeks. Unframed prints are generally also 2-3 weeks at worst.
We aim to get prints out as quickly as possible, so we would expect and hope that you would receive them earlier than the above timeframes. If you have a particular need to get a print quickly, please let us know in the order notes and we'll prioritize it for you, or you can email us at info@petercox.ie.
Prints are well-packaged and in the unlikely event that it arrives damaged, we'll send a replacement free of charge.
When your order ships, you'll receive an email with your tracking number.
Thanks for your trust, and we hope you get many years of enjoyment from your new print!
































