Woodland Workshop Multi-Cache
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This cache can be found in Conagher Forest, which forms part of the largest continuous forest in Northern Ireland, and can be accessed from the Glenashaver Road and Doagh Road.
This is a two part multicache. The listed coordinates will take you to the starting location, which is a memorial to the Ferguson family whose family farm was located here at the turn of the 20th Century.
At this location, you will need to find the answers to solve the questions below. Bring a pen and paper at the least, and a calculator would be of assistance!
The memorial is located just over 2km from the suggested parking location, and is over rough forest tracks with moderate gradients. We had no issues with our pushchair here and bicycles would be fine, but small wheels will struggle.
This section of forest track, along with parts of Lough Navar is regularly used by the Enniskillen Motor Club for their Clubman Stages Rally. Evidence of this can be seen by the tracks left behind in places!
To work out the final coordinates, you will need to solve four parts of this puzzle using information gathered from the memorial. Here you will find the cache, a small tupperware container containing, when placed, a few goodies.
The memorial lists the years that the Ferguson children were born and died. For all of the following questions, assume that the children had had a birthday in the year they died.
Question 1: This will provide you with the answer to A:
Two of the Ferguson's male children were named Henry and James. Calculate the difference between the years they died.
Add this to the total number of children that the Fergusons had.
This will provide you with the first two digits for the Northing.
Question 2: This will provide you with the answer to B:
Which male child, had he lived an extra number of years equal to the age the third-born child reached, would have been the same age as the third-born male child at his death?
Take the year of his death and treat this as E.
Take the last 2 digits of all of the female childrens' birth years.
Sum the above and treat this as F.
Calculate the ages of the children at their death.
Determine the age of the longest living boy and longest living girl.
Sum these two ages and treat this as G.
Take the number of currently living descendants at the time of the memorial's erection.
Treat this as H.
Alphabetise the names of the Ferguson children.
Calculate the age the 4th, 8th, 9th and 11th alphabetical child reached before they died.
Sum the above, and treat this as I.
Take the total number of male children.
Treat this as J.
Take the number of stone crescent benches that surround the memorial cairn.
Treat this as K.
Solve the below equation and this will provide you with the last three digits for the Northing.
E-F-G-H-I-J-K = B
Question 3: This will provide you with the answer to C:
You will note that not all of the Fergusons children had a unique name. Counting each unique name only once, sum the number of letters that make up each name.
From this, subtract the age of the second born female child when she died.
This will provide you with the first two digits of the Westing.
Question 4: This will provide you with the answer to D:
Take the last 2 digits of all of the male childrens' birth years.
Sum the above and treat this as L.
Take the last 2 digits of all of the years in which a male child died.
Sum the above and treat this as M.
Count the number of children that the Fergusons had.
Treat this as N.
Determine the last two male children born to the Fergusons.
Calculate the difference between the number of characters in each of these names.
Treat this as O.
As previously noted, take the number of "currently living descendants" at the time of the memorial's erection.
As before, treat this as H.
Solve the below equation and this will provide you with the last three digits for the Westing.
L + M + N + O + H = D
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