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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Friday, October 4, 2013

NUMBER 692

BENCHMARKS continued

A hidden-in-plain-sight little gem in the city centre that is a popular promenading spot for some in-the-know Southside Dubliners is the South Bull Wall leading out to the Poolbeg Lighthouse. However unlike its counterpart on the Northside - the Bull Wall - a visit to there by road requires navigating an ugly and extensive industrial complex. Benchmarker is usually not one to editorialize but surely the City fathers and mothers should make this lovely spot more accessible and more widely popular by constructing a new roadway to bypass that great big mass of power stations, sewerage works, shipping container depots etc. (This message was approved by M.C.)

Below: A 'mark on the South Bull Wall, Dublin City. It's about 200 metres west of the Lighthouse near a set of steps.
 
 Above: Looking east on the South Bull Wall with the 'mark at bottom left.

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