New book looks inside the beautiful baths of the Burren

New book looks inside the beautiful baths of the Burren

In the windswept fields of North Clare, a curious phenomenon has taken root. Hundreds of old cast-iron bathtubs, once fixtures of rural homes, now stand scattered across the landscape—repurposed as cattle troughs. In Tracking the Wild Bathtubs of North Clare, designer and cultural researcher Michael D. Walsh transforms this oddity into a rich cultural study, blending photography, fieldwork and humor. What began during lockdown as a personal mapp…