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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Sunday, March 1, 2015

NUMBER 807

BENCHMARKS continued



With the replacement of part of the corner of the old wall with a modern red-brick pillar, except for its leftmost leg this one has been entombed. Spotted by an eagle-eyed Michael Byrne it is located on Grosvenor Terrace in Monkstown in Dublin, at its eastern corner with Pakenham Road.



Below: The left leg of an otherwise entombed 'mark on Grosvenor Terrace in Monkstown.
 
Above: On Grosvenor Terrace with the 'mark, four bricks up, where the new pillar meets the older granite.

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