Double Dutch Multi-Cache
meave: I have decided to archive this cache.
As i have moved abroad and are no longer able to maintain things properly.
Thanks to all who came out to give it a try and all who shared their adventures in the logs, liver-eating-cows! Priceless.
Happy caching,
Meave
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Not suitable for bikes.
Parking at entrance to field about 1 mile from cachesite.
Cattle sometimes present.
Don't be tempted to visit Newball house as it is privatly owened and the occupants value their privacy!!
Killone (Cill Eoin, the church of St. John the Baptist) convent was probably founded around 1189, by Donal mor O’Brien, but could possibly be older. It was founded as a Nunnery, and it provided many services to the surrounding community. Many of the abbesses are know to be of the O’Brien family.
In a grove on the shore of the lake, to the due east of the convent, lie the quaint pretty well, altar, and bathing tank, once the scene of a far-famed “pattern.” “Rounds” are still made there each June, but, though the piety still remains, the dissipation has been stopped, and with it the merrymaking. The altar bears an inscription on its north side:
“THIS ALTAR WAS¦BUILT BY ANTHONY ¦ROCH, MERCHANT ¦FROM ENNIS ¦1731 I.H.S.”
Killone lake is supposedly the abode of a mermaid who used to swim up a small brook and steal wine from either the crypt beneath the church or the cellar of Newhall. She was stabbed by a butler of the O'Briens, or shot by one of the "Black" MacDonnells, but managed to drag herself back into the lake and every forty years or so the lake is supposed to turn blood red.
This Cache is a Multi Cache, the coordinates for the second leg can be found in the logbook of the first cache.
Additional Hints
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Gur svefg pnpur vf bhgfvqr gur Noorl haqre n ynetr gerr, haqre n ebpx. Gur frpbaq pnpur vf n fubeg jnyx njnl bire gur tenff (qba'g penjy guebhtu ohfurf)pybfr gb gur jngre. Gurer vf n uvag sbe gur frpbaq pnpur va gur svefg ybtobbx gbtrgure jvgu gur pb-beqvangrf.
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