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, April 24, 2015

NUMBER 832

BENCHMARKS continued



This one from Michael Byrne at the Reservoir in Stillorgan in County Dublin, is so much the worse for wear - or as Dubs might say 'rag-order' - that it is practically impossible to see it in a photograph.

Michael writes “It is very badly weathered, and perhaps not that well cut either, requiring feel as much as visual confirmation. In all the excitement of getting access to look for 'marks within the reservoir, I forgot my chalk, so I offer what photographic evidence I can along with a sworn statement that there is the remains of a 'mark there! (squinting severely helps a lot)”.




Below: A 'mark at the Stillorgan Reservoir in County Dublin.
 
Above: Looking north at the granite steps leading up to the first basin. What's left of the 'mark is on the block beneath the left hand capstone.

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