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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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

NUMBER 667

BENCHMARKS continued

Go past the night-club and down along the East Pier - built in 1761 by the Honourable George Hamilton of Hampton in the County of Dublin - through the rotted wooden mooring posts, past the stripped-down rusted hulks stranded on the harbour bottom, and you will find this one on the lighthouse in Balbriggan, County Dublin.

Below: The 'mark on the lighthouse in Balbriggan.
 
 Above: A view of the lighthouse with the 'mark at the centre bottom of the tower.

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