Yellow Walls Series - 04 Millview House Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 8/20/2017
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


This series of caches aims to highlight the history of the townland of Yellow Walls. Now considered to be part of Malahide it was once a larger and more prosperous area and has a deep and rich history, much of which has been lost to or is close to being lost to suburban development. I hope you get to find all the caches in the series and enjoy yourself in the process.

One of the four roads that meet at Yellow Walls crossroads is Millview road. About 0.5 km down from the crossroads, there is a large green open space off to the right of Millview road. Up until 1971, when it was demolished, Millview House stood here in the middle of a 10† acre farm. The house was named for its view of the windmill that once stood on Feltrim Hill, about 1.5 km away. Millview House was the home of the Kettles. Andrew Kettle was a farmer and well known political activist, being one of the founders of the Land League and a close ally of Charles Stewart Parnell. The family were well off and Tom Kettle attended Clongowes College in Kildare and University College Dublin, where he developed friendships with Francis Sheehy Skeffington, Oliver St. John Gogarty, and James Joyce. Kettle suffered from poor health throughout his life, having at one stage to interrupt his university studies. After graduation, he studied law at King’s Inns. He was called to the bar in April 1906 but never practised as he was invited to contest a by-election in East Tyrone as the Irish Party candidate. He won and was elected to the House of Commons at the age of 26. Tom Kettle was killed in action in France on September 9th that year during the assault and capture of Ginchy. Shot through the chest by a sniper, Kettle fell almost immediately as he led his men over the top of the trenches and towards the German lines. Two days earlier he had a written a poem for his infant daughter Betty. The poem, “To My Daughter Betty, The Gift of God”1 includes the lines: “So here, while the mad guns curse overhead, And tired men sigh, with mud for couch and floor, Know that we fools, now with the foolish dead, Died not for Flag, nor King, nor Emperor, But for a dream, born in a herdsman’s shed, And for the Secret Scripture of the poor.” A bust erected in honour of Tom Kettle in St. Stephen’s Green (see photo), Dublin in 1937 includes the last three lines of the above quote.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Fgnaqvat ng gur byq purfgahg gerr, snpr gur ebnq naq gur pnpur vf nobhg 10 cnprf gb gur yrsg va gur tebjgu. 6’ bss gur tebhaq.

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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