Along with a camera and a copies of the 25'' maps, an essential tool for any benchmark hunter is a machete or a garden shears. Fortunately M.C. didn't have to unleash his savage side in order to find this fine old 'mark which lurks behind a young cotoneaster (or is it a pyracantha?) on a wall of the Church of Ireland in Kilbride, Co Wicklow.

Below: The 'mark on the Church of Ireland, Kilbride, Co Wicklow.

Above: A view of the church with the 'mark somewhere behind the shrubbery below the window.