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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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

NUMBER 339

BENCHMARKS continued

This one is very much the worse for wear. And is it upside down? It's from M.C. and is on the bridge over the Avonmore River at Rathdrum in County Wicklow. Perhaps the granite block was removed and replaced the wrong way up during repairs sometime in the past.

Below: The 'mark at Rathdrum Bridge, County Wicklow.
Above: Rathdrum Bridge with the 'mark at left.

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