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From the image recording device of M.C., this one is on a gate pillar of a house - 1 Annamount - on Mulgrave Terrace in Dun Laoghaire.

Below: The 'mark on Mulgrave Terrace.

 

Above: Mulgrave Terrace, looking north, with the 'mark at bottom left.

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Not waving but drowning! M.C. arrived just in time to record the final moments of this one - on Bray Bridge, Co Wicklow - as it sinks to its doom under the sea of ever-rising concrete, to be lost for ever and all time. The great urgency of Benchmarker's heroic quest has seldom been more starkly illustrated. Tempus fugit!

Below: The 'mark on Bray Bridge. The top bar of the 'mark can just be seen below the stone testifying the identity of builders of the edifice.

  

Above: Bray Bridge looking towards Main Street with the 'mark just below the stone plaque on the wall at left.

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M.C.'s Spring safari throws up one of those unsettling puzzlers in the style of the plural of mongoose. Is it mongooses or mongeese? Benchmarker's word-processor spell-checker indicates the former.

In this particular case it is to do with the apostrophe; should it be St. James', or St. James's, or indeed St. James, which is the option displayed on the gate pillar of this fine Victorian des-res in Clonskeagh in Dublin City. Of these three choices, Benchmarker's spell-checker rules out St. James's only.

Below: The 'mark on St. James' Terrace, Dublin City.

 

 

Above: Number 1 St. James' Terrace. The 'mark is out of sight, on the sill of the window located under the entrance steps to the right.

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From the cameraphone of M.C., this one is on the signal-box at Lansdowne Road railway station in Dublin.

Below: The 'mark on Lansdowne Road, Dublin City.

 

 Above: On the east side of the railway station looking towards the platform with the 'mark to the left of the opened gate.

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While Benchmarker was away for a month recently - gallivanting under African skies - and Ireland was being buffeted by a particularly inclement Spring, M.C., not for the first time, and displaying courage and fortitude, hitched himself singularly to the yoke of the benchmark hunt. The result: 31 'marks, an average of one a day. At this rate the great ambition to bag 1,001, must surely be achieved. Well done M.C!

Below: The 'mark on the Dept. of Education building on Talbot Street, Dublin.

 

Above: Talbot Street, looking east towards Dennis Guiney's, with the 'mark at bottom left.