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, January 31, 2013

NUMBER 617

BENCHMARKS continued

This one from M.C. is on a granite pillar, which may have once been a mile-marker, in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, at the junction of two streets called The Shannon and Templeshannon.

Below: The 'mark at the junction of The Shannon and Templeshannon in Enniscorthy.
 
 Above: At the junction of The Shannon and Templeshannon with the 'mark at the bottom of the granite block on the corner.

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