Eire 6 Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 10/1/2018
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


Eire 06

The recent restoration project has just been completed so it is an amazing time to visit.

In the 1980's, there was a very intense gorse fire on the East Mountain that burnt for several days and smoldered of for some weeks, and the Howth EIRE 6 sign became clearly visible. It was first noticed by a member of the defunct Howth Riding Club passing by on horseback on their treks at this time and learnt of its purpose from Jerry O'Brien who grazed the East Mountain as far as the Baily.

The Second World War EIRE 8 "waypoint" sign commissioned by David Gray, the American Ambassador to Ireland during the war years, was discovered some years ago after a fire in Bray Head and has now been cleaned up by local volunteers. Such a WW2 sign was also discovered in Malin head and was fully restored as a tourist attraction. Local people believed that it was to show German war planes that they were over "neutral" territory and they were called "Neutral signs", but in fact the EIRE signs were commissioned by the American Ambassador as waypoints to inform USA and Canadian aircraft flying to Britain and from a map they could locate their position and conserve fuel. Sign No 1 was near the border and by the time the waypoints, (as the USA airforce called them), reached Howth, they achieved No. 6. Across the bay on our sister hill in Bray, it was No 8, with No. 7 in between set back into the Dublin Mountains. They wrapped around our coast in a clockwise direction until they reached Donegal.

The original letters were cut into the ground and the "E", for example, would occupy a rectangle of 14M high by 6M wide. Locally gathered Howth stones were heaped on top and whitewashed to make them visible from the air.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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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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