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, April 15, 2010

NUMBER 10

BENCHMARKS continued

The one that inspired the setting up of this website. It is located in the north country fair, on the northern wall of the bridge on the river Moyle at the western end of Main Street, Newtowncunningham, Co Donegal. For as long as Benchmarker can remember - having spent nine years as a youth in Newtown - the 'mark has been in an upside-down position; and it is not therefore as a result of the recent construction work on the bridge walls. The 'mark also contains some letters and/or numbers, but unfortunately it is not easy to decipher what they are.

-->Above: On Moyle Bridge looking east into Newtowncunningham. The 'mark is located on the left.

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