BENCHMARKS continued
Optimism
triumphed over experience again recently when M.C. suggested that it
might be a rather jolly jape if a few of us got together to visit a
former colleague now domiciled up in the foothills of the Comeragh
Mountains. There were four in the car for the journey; to wit, M.C.
at the wheel, yours truly, Stamp Tony Byrne and the President (No,
not that one, not Michael Dee. But it's a bit long to explain.) The
vehicle had barely wheeled onto the Naas Road when M.C. announced
that as well as appraising the décor of one or two of the public
houses of County Tipperary, some time would be set aside for
benchmark hunting. This drew from one of the passengers the response
“Shur benchmarks are nothing more than chisel scratches on auld
stones!” (The author of this remark of such outrageous sociopathic
disassociation will remain anonymous - but let's just say it wasn't
Tony.) The result was that the rest of the afternoon, evening and
night, passed in a state of ill concealed fractious tension.
Nevertheless a number of chisel scratches on auld stones were
recorded with the first of them on O'Connell Street in Clonmel in
County Tipperary.
Below: A 'mark on the south side of O'Connell at it's
junction with Bridge Street in Clonmel, County Tipperary.
Above: Looking west on O'Connell Street with the 'mark
at bottom left behind the utility box.
