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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Thursday, January 31, 2013

NUMBER 624

BENCHMARKS continued

This one from M.C. is on the wall of a shed on the N59 at Bushy Park in County Galway.

Below: A 'mark at Bushy Park, Galway.
 
 Above: Looking south-east on the N59 with the 'mark at left.

NUMBER 623

BENCHMARKS continued

This one from M.C. is on a corner of the Town Hall on Quay Street, New Ross, County Wexford.

Below: A 'mark on Quay Street, New Ross.
 
 Above: On Quay Street looking into Mary Street with the 'mark at right.

NUMBER 622

BENCHMARKS continued

This one from M.C. is on the east side of Thormanby Road near the junction with Upper Cliff Road in Howth in Dublin.

Below: No need for M.C.'s magic chalk stick. Highlighted in scarlet, a 'mark on Thormanby Road, Howth.
 
 Above: On Thormanby Road at the junction with Upper Cliff Road with the 'mark at left.

NUMBER 621

BENCHMARKS continued

Another one from M.C. located on a wall on The Shannon in Enniscorthy, County Wexford. It's on a stretch called the Misericordia Range.

Below: A 'mark on The Shannon, Enniscorthy.
 
 Above: On The Shannon looking south-west with the 'mark near the corner of the wall.

NUMBER 620

BENCHMARKS continued

This one from M.C. is on the wall of the chapel on The Shannon in Enniscorthy, County Wexford.

Below: A 'mark on The Shannon, Enniscorthy.
 
 Above: On The Shannon looking south-east with the 'mark at right.

NUMBER 619

BENCHMARKS continued

M.C. found this one on a wall pillar of a gateway to an area called The Orchard on Newtownpark Avenue in Blackrock, County Dublin.

Below: A 'mark on Newtownpark Avenue, Blackrock.
 
 Above: A view of the entrance to The Orchard with the 'mark at the bottom of the wall pillar at left.

NUMBER 618

BENCHMARKS continued

This one from M.C. is on the north side of Lucan Road, a short way east of Chalet Gardens, at Lucan, County Dublin.

Below: A 'mark on Lucan Road.
 
 Above: On Lucan Road looking east with the 'mark at left.

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