Bloody Bridge Traditional Cache

The Cache is located in the quiet Vilage of Gowran. While pieceful now it has a lot of history and landmark (that already have geocaches), so this cache helps to create link between the other 2 historic site ie St Mary's and Gowran Castle. I'd hope this cache would give an insight to the history and folklore to the area. 

Gowran developed as a settlement in Norman times and was granted a Charter of Incorporation by Theobald Fitzwalter, ancestor of the Butlers, in 1206. Gowran grew in importance thereafter and had defences with stone gatehouses by the early 15th
Century. The town lay on an important route between Munster and Leinster and was besieged and captured by Edward Bruce in 1316 and by Cromwell in 1650. The siege by Cromwell was said to be so fierce that it turned the river red with blood and hence the name of our cache.
There is still some evidence of the town defences in the form of a fosse or ditch along rear property boundaries to the north of the town and the site of the original Gowran Castle can still be discerned c. 80 metres to the north – east of Viscount Clifden’s classical house. The principal evidence of medieval Gowran lies in the ruins of the collegiate church of St. Mary’s in the centre of the town which was built c. 1275. St.Mary’s is a National Monument and the lower part of the tower is incorporated into the Church of Ireland built in 1826. 

The cache is a black magnetic box with a screw off lid. You won't find this cache by simply sitting on the wall.