GC2ZFKA View over Red Bay Castle (Traditional Cache) in Ulster, Ireland created by batsgonemad and his squirrel

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GC2ZFKA ▼

A cache by batsgonemad and his squirrel Message this owner

Hidden : 7/3/2011

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Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Great views over a spot some people might never see

The site is known locally as McQuillans Fort, The McQuillians at one time held power in the Glens and the route. The area was also owned by John and Walter Bissett, who had bought the glens from Richard de Burgo after they had been exiled here from Scotland in 1224.

It was at probably this time that the first stone structure appeared on the headland, replacing an earlier wooden one built in the mid 1600's by the Mc Donnells. The McDonnelles inherited the Glens and the castle through marriage in the late 1390's

The castle was destroyed in 1652, during the military campaign of Oliver Cromwell.

The Red Arch.
The Red Arch was cut through the sandstone headland in 1817 by Fracis Turnly a local landowner, to improve the road betwen Cushendall and Waterfoot. Previously it had been necessary to negotiate a steep, narrow track over the adjoining headland. Turnly used this route frequently when travelling between his estates at Cushendall and Drumnasole, north of Carnlough. His many public spirited and sometimes eccentric schemes were a feature of local life in the first half of the 1800's

In the rock face a short distance from the Red Arch are several caves, one of which was once a school. The Penal Laws, introduced in the 1700's, prohibited the education of Irish Catholics. This resulted in the creation of illegal Hedge schools, where masters taught in barnes, caves and even under hedges. Other caves were used as dwellings, a blacksmiths forge or to store fishing nets.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

obggbz bs srapr cbyr

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)