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, June 3, 2012

NUMBER 400

BENCHMARKS continued

Another poor creatur that is almost lost to posterity below the ever rising tide of mass-concrete. Recorded by M.C., it's at the base of a gate pillar at what was once an entrance to the school building on Adelaide Road near the junction with Eden Road Lower in Dun Laoghaire.

Below: The 'mark on Adelaide Road.
Above: A view of the school building on Adelaide Road with the 'mark at the base of the left pillar.

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