Movanagher Bawn Traditional Cache

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Cuilcagh: The cache owner is not responding to issues with this geocache, so I must regretfully archive it.

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Cuilcagh - Community Volunteer Reviewer for Geocaching HQ (Ireland)

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Hidden : 7/26/2012
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: other (other)

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Geocache Description:

Cach is a nano: bring your own pencil.
Cars: suggested speed limit for visitors: 20 MPH.
Please park considerately at the three gates. No need to enter private ground.

The Movanagher Road can be found on the A54 two and a half miles north of Kilrea. Suggested speed limit for visiting drivers: 20 mph.
The Plantation of Ulster by the London Companies began in the Coleraine area. To protect their assets, strongholds called ‘bawns’ were constructed. One of these strong houses was built at Movanagher in the early 1600s by the Mercers' Company of London to protect their company village close by. The famous map by Raven from 1622 records it in close detail. Part of the farmyard here has a round tower still visible with its gunloops and windows. Recent extensive excavations found that no trace survives of the village of timber framed houses which stood in the pastures just to the south.
In what was a minor twist of fate, the rich and powerful Mercers' Company was unable to attract enough people to make the new settlement viable so they were forced to rely on mainly Irish tenants.“Father Kennedy's” Eel Weir is nearby but massive over-fishing through time has rendered it unprofitable with almost all of its main structures unmaintained and disappearing.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

[Three gateways stand close by the bawn, Two gates remain but ours is long gone.]

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)


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