Bridge on the Cullion Road spanning Sruhanleanantawey Burn
The Cache
The cache is a small tablock box, it contains a log and pencil and a few swaps(not the pencil).
This road has very little traffic and therefore, with care, is wheelchair friendly, but assistance will be needed to retrieve the cache. There is plenty of off-road parking near the bridge
An extract from the Northern Ireland Environment Agency web site;
"Sruhanleanantawey Burn is a special place because of its important geology. The area provides access to a range of rocks that are exposed along the stream. The rocks here date from the Ordovician period of Earth history and are some 460 million years old. A mixture of sedimentary, volcanic and other igneous rocks are exposed. These were originally laid down in an ancient ocean called the Iapetus. The type of volcanic rocks found at the site show that the rocks formed in what’s known as an `Island Arc´ setting, similar to Japan and the Caribbean Islands today. An island arc forms where the ocean crust is moving down into the Earth, causing earthquakes and forming volcanoes at the surface. The Iapetus crust was moving down under an ancient continent called Laurentia. One of the rocks exposed is a dark slate that contains fragments of fossil organisms called graptolites. These were colonial animals that drifted through the oceans all over the world and have helped accurately date the rock sequence. Correct management is essential for special places like Sruhleanantawey Burn. Northern Ireland Environment Agency is keen to work closely with landowners to maintain and enhance Sruhleanantawey Burn ASSI."
The Area of Special Scientific Interest is upstream of the bridge and the main burn to the right. Just downstream it flows in to the White Water River. If you head downstream using the gated tarmac road, you will find that the White Water it is held back by a weir from which the river water is gravity fed, for use in the main public water supply, to Lough Fea.
There is an anemometer near to this A.S.S.I. site measuring wind speeds as planning is in process for a windfarm.
The suggested Irish is, Sruthán Léana an tSamhaidh - the stream of the sorrel meadow.