Gulliver's Travels Traditional Cache
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The cache is located in the Old graveyard in Ballynure of the Church Road is a small tab box with log and pencile
The ancient graveyard opposite Christ Church is a reminder of Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver’s Travels. Jonathan Swift, later Dean of St. Patrick’sCathedral in Dublin, whose outspoken words against the Establishment are quoted to this day.
Swift’s Kilroot parish included Ballynure and he regularly preached in the village. The earliest headstone in the graveyard records the death of Elenor Clemens in 1698, an ancestor of Mark Twain, the author. The ruins of the old church which our still visible was once a thriving place to worship paying 1 shilling tax to PopeNicholas in 1297, but at the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry Vlll, Ballynure belong to Muckamore Abbey and the hospitallers ceased Roman Catholicism and became Church of Ireland
Parking at 54.46.420 005.57.321 then a short walk up the road to the gate of the graveyard
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Va Ubyybj orgjrra gur yvivat naq gur qrnq ebbg
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