BENCHMARKS continued
Of all the many, many references to the many, many, many
features of Ballivor that can be found in song and in story, in
poems, memoirs, documentaries, plays, novels, feature films, news
reels, etc, etc, etc, how disappointing it is then to consider that
its finest feature - the wonderful, wonderful benchmark on the fine
old stone-built Earls Bridge on the Stonyford River - has been
completely ignored. It falls therefore to M.C. and Benchmarker to
attempt, more in sorrow than in anger, with this small heart-felt tribute here on this website, to correct this
great injustice.
Below: The 'mark on Earls Bridge at Ballivor in County
Meath.
Above: On Earls Bridge looking north with the 'mark on
the left at bottom left of the stone plaque which, for all anyone is
able to tell, perhaps gives the date of the erection of the bridge,
and by who it was paid for and carried out; but its not possible to
tell because the plaque, like the 'mark, is so unappreciated that it
has been allowed to become smothered with lichens. How disappointing!
