Fitzwilliam Square Multi-Cache
Kerstilee: Seems to have gone missing again.
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An often overlooked but charming location.
Background:
Fitzwilliam Square is a small but historic Georgian square in the
south of central Dublin, Ireland. It was the last of the five
Georgian squares in Dublin to be built.
The square was developed by Richard FitzWilliam, 7th Viscount
FitzWilliam, hence the name. It was designed from 1789 and laid out
in 1792. The centre of the square was enclosed in 1813 through an
Act of parliament. To the north is the much larger Merrion Square,
with which Richard FitzWilliam was also involved. The square was a
popular place for the Irish Social Season of aristocrats
entertaining in Dublin between January and Saint Patrick's Day each
year.
Shootings took place in the square during Bloody Sunday of 1920.
Sir Thomas O'Shaughnessy (1850–1933), the last Recorder of Dublin,
lived in Fitzwilliam Square and died here on 7 March 1933. In the
1960s, around twenty houses in the square were demolished to build
a new headquarters for the Electricity Supply Board. Apart from
this, much of the square is as it was originally.
The N11 road passes through the west side of the square on its way
into central Dublin.
The Fitzwilliam Square Association is a non-profit making
organisation, formed in 1971. Its mandate is to maintain the Square
and garden, which it holds on a 150 year lease from the Earl of
Pembroke. The Square itself is the last remaining private garden of
its age and type in Dublin - and is available for members of the
Association to hold parties and other events within.
The Cache:
You will need to collect a few numbers before you can work out the
final coordinates of this cache.
A = How many post boxes are huddled together at your starting
point?
B = A botanist lived at one of the houses, how many letters are in
his last name?
CD = and how many years did he live here?
E = if the door at number 25 is red, then E = 8, if it's black then
E = 1 and if it's green then E = 4
F = how many yellow doors face the garden?
Now, to work out the cache you need to solve the following - note
that each digit in the minutes and seconds is surrounded by square
brackets.
N 53° [A][DxE].[E^B][B-F][A+E]
W 006° [E-D][FxE].[C-(A+E)][A^A][B-(FxE)+D]
Cache is non magnetic and small but large enough to hold small TBs.
Please be careful as this is a very busy area. Can be accessed from
the street, indeed cannot be accessed from inside.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Xrrc ybj gb gur tebhaq, ernpu guebhtu gb svaq.
Treasures
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