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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Monday, January 23, 2012

NUMBER 369


BENCHMARKS continued

'And the sun pours down like honey
on Our Lady of the Harbour ... '

You don't need to go looking among the seaweed and the flowers to find this one. It's on the top of the 5,000 Feet Stone on the Bull Wall. There should be another 'mark at the base of the statue's tripod but it was probably removed when that construction was erected in the early 1960s. 
 
Below: The 'mark on the 5,000 Feet Stone on the Bull Wall. Also well christened by the 'gulls.
Above: On the Bull Wall looking out to the Irish Sea with the 'mark on the top of the stone at right.

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