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, December 13, 2012

NUMBER 504

 BENCHMARK continued

P.G.R. made another foray into his home-town of Clonmel recently to get the last of the known benchmarks there. It is to the right of the main-door steps of the Clonmel Arms Hotel in Sarsfield St. (just left of the bumper of the hatchback car in the wide shot.) It is coincidental that P.G.R.'s grandfather, Godfrey Ryan, took lodgings in Mrs. Ellen Walshe's boarding-house directly opposite the hotel at number 23, according to the 1911 census.

Below: The 'mark on Sarsfield Street, Clonmel.
 
Above: The Clonmel Arms Hotel with the 'mark on the base of the railings just to the left of the car.

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