BENCHMARKS continued
Below:
These two are each located on the bases of the pillars of a gateway at
the junction of Temple Street West and Wolfe Tone Quay, Dublin.
Benchmarker suspects that training for mapping/surveying work was
carried out by personnel attached to the nearby Royal Barracks
(later Collins Barracks, now part of the National Museum). Therefore
these particular benchmarks, and others close by, may have been used for
training exercises. It's only a theory.
Above: Wolfe
Tone Quay, looking east towards the city centre. The 'marks are at the
bases of the pillars of the entrance on the left.