Scenic Limerick Multi-Cache
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This is a tourist friendly walk through the Limerick medieval quarter and around the bridges with some very nice views of Limerick’s panoramas around the mighty River Shannon. In the end you will be rewarded with a well hidden small (almost micro but still big enough to hold some small kids friendly swag items) tube. Since the hide is at an extremely cheeky place, you will need to apply multiple stealth techniques to retrieve and put it back.
No solution check provided intentionally as this one is not supposed to be Googlable and should provide a tourist friendly walk around.
Some conventions you will need for the Questions to answer below
You might also need to calculate some digital roots. The precise definition is here (visit link) In case you do not have an internet connection handy, just for your convenience, it is the notorious method of summing up the digits in multi-digit numbers until you end up with a single 1-digit number. For instance, the digital root of 666 is 9.
This cache is no longer in beta since it was readily found by batinahat and Stellapickle.. Congratulations!
The cache is a small aluminum tube, on the verge of micro actually, yet it does hold some kids friendly swag. It is extremely hard to maintain a hide in this urban area, so please be absolutely sure that you are not being watched while replacing and do replace carefully and exactly.
General Logistics
During normal office hours on workdays, there is virtually no free parking in the Limerick City. There are many paid street and multistory parking options. Some of the dedicated car parks will be closed on weekends and all of them overnight. However, the street parking is mostly free on weekends (on some frequented places only Sundays) and after hours. This multi is easily done from the Potato Market parking, see details under the waypoint.
For the street parking options, you will need to buy Limerick City Council parking discs (available from many streets shops including barbers, gas stations etc. this is as a rule advertised on the main access door) or pay by phone parking discs from ParkMagic (not suitable for tourists).
Most of the dedicated car parks only take cash and DO NOT accept credit cards, which seems VERY strange in the 21st century..
However, strictly speaking all stages with questions to answer and the final are available 24/7 with no mandatory fees; that is if you plan well and resign on the nice footbridge and park walk that is accessible only when the main parking area on the Potato Market is open.
Accessing the King John’s Castle is not necessary for this multi, but you will have an even better vantage point for admiring the urban and natural views from the fortresse’s bastions. BTW, there is no way through to the castle entrance and Q3 directly from Q1 and Q2, so you will need to return to the car and go around the other side of the Court and the City Council premises to get to the castle from the accessible end. Q1 through Q3 are all public and can be collected and resolved in any order. You will need to calculate locations of other Questions to answer and the Final.
River Shannon and other Views
Following the stages of this multi you will have many scenic views of the river, the city and also the highlands surrounding the city from the Co. Clare side.
The King’s John Castle, which will dominate most of the views is actually on a partially man-made island called King’s island which is enclosed between the man made and fully regulated canal called Abbey River and the latter arm of the river’s last meander ( (visit link) ).
It is hard to determine where the river ends and where the Shannon Estuary starts but if you go by a definition including tidal changes and salt water, you will actually realize that the Shannon estuary starts and the river ends in the City right in front of your eyes. You will actually see the tidal water level change during the day in the summer. During a wet winter however, the heavy inflow of fresh water from the northern unregulated arm will counter the tidal effects and make them virtually invisible.
At the location of Q1 you will find a memorial and of course scenic views over the mighty river. On the left you can see the regulated Abbey River rejoining the main river flow coming from the North; further on the north, you can see Cratloe Hills (the highest point – Woodcock Hill – is adorned with a white golf-ball-shaped aerial: (visit link) – and the second highest Gallows Hill to the left: (visit link) ).
Initial – Q1
N 52° 40.096’
W 8° 37.523’
Write down ALL the numerals from the ENGLISH PART of the cast metal inscription explaining about the Flight of the Wild Geese, concatenate them, and calculate the digital root, which will become A.
Now, look for the other inscription mentioning United Nations.
Count all letters T on both the English and the Irish version of the inscription and their number becomes B.
Q2 and Q3 are public waypoints, on which you will collect C, D, E, and F.
To Q4
N 52° (F-E)(F+D).(A+D)(B-C)(F-A)’
W 8° 37.BD(C-E)’
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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