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, June 7, 2012

NUMBER 405

BENCHMARKS continued

Where the rivers have no name, M.C. found this one. It's on the bridge over the small stream that flows gently through Shanganagh, Co Dublin. That stream appears to originate somewhere in the uplands of West County Dublin and, picking up many tributaries on the way, flows down through Carricksmines, Loughlinstown and Shanganagh - but not Kilkenny and Kildare - before entering the sea at Hackettstown. It must have a name but the maps don't record it.

Below: The 'mark on Shanganagh Bridge.
 
Above: Shanganagh Bridge with the 'mark on the middle of the wall.

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