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, November 11, 2010

NUMBER 93

BENCHMARKS continued

This one is located on the base of the railings of a house at the corner of Fitzwilliam Square and Fitzwilliam Place in Dublin.

A plaque on the building states that the painter Jack B. Yeats lived there. Benchmarker was prompted to wonder if he ever painted a scene entitled “A Benchmarker rides into a Town”? Probably not.

Above: Fitzwilliam Place looking towards Leeson Street. The 'mark is on the corner of the base of the railings facing, at right.


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