Parkanaur Forest is a public forest with some marked walking trails, a mixed coniferous and broadleaved woodland of almost 200 hectares, There is a herd of white fallow deer in a gated enclosure you can walk through. As of 2024 the walkthrough has been closed, a dog owner let their mutt chase and attack the deer. There is a new path around the enclosure and lots of signs for dogs to keep their owners on a lead.
The Parkanaur land, previously owned by the O'Donnelly family, was granted by King James I to Toby Caulfeild, 1st Baron Caulfield in the early 17th century. The property remained in the Caulfield family until they sold it to Ynyr Burges in 1771. His descendants built Edenfield, a two-storey cottage on the estate. In the 1820s, John Henry Burges moved in and enlarged the cottage. His son, John Ynyr Burges, commissioned architect Thomas Duff to design a new mansion, which was built between 1839 and 1854. Burges names the mansion "Parkanaur".
Parkanaur remained in the Burges family until they moved to England in 1955. It was then bought by American millionaire Thomas Doran. who had emigrated from nearby Castlecaulfield as a teenager. He made Parkanaur available to his friend Rev. Gerry Eakins to develop a new centre for the education of disabled young adults. The house reopened in 1960 as 'The Thomas Doran Training Centre', (Parkanaur College) and much of the house continues today in this role. Source
The Cache
At the given coordinates, above the entrance is a date stone ABCD
The cache is at N 54° 30.(C - D - A) (B + A) (D x 2) W 006° 5 A . (D x 2) B C
Checker :- the distance to the cache is 0.DA of a mile
There is an unmarked trail to the cache, the last bit can be muddy and passes some fallen trees, cache is a 70mm metal tube BYOP