The intention with this website is to locate at least 1,001 benchmark sites, or die in the attempt (no flowers please, house private). Photos of any benchmark sites found will be posted at intervals over the coming days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries ... Anyone who wishes to contribute can send photos and descriptions of any benchmarks they find and would like to have included here, to mfbourke@gmail.com See post Number 1 for a fuller description.

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Thursday, March 4, 2010

NUMBERS 2 & 3

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.
 

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