On the hill overlooking the City of Peel stands a stone tower known as Corrin's Folly. This monument was built around 1806 by Thomas Corrin, who owned the hill and much land nearby. The site and its position at the summit of the hill was one of his favourite places and there next to the tower in a small outlined graveyard, he laid to rest his wife and two children. Their graves are marked out with pillars of stone.
Corrin's Folly is four stories high. Much of the inside is taken up with a pillar set in the centre of the building which starts out square on the ground floor, but goes more round as it moves up through the floors to the roof. Memorial tablets of stone as well as inscriptions on the walls mark the ground and first floor with memories of departed Corrins'.
Thomas Corrin often stayed on the third floor reading by a small fireplace. As a consquence, the windows on all three floors of the east side of the tower are blocked up, due to complaints that ships were mistaking the tower light for the Peel breakwater light.
There are many footpaths leading up the hill to Corrin's Folly. Most are from the Peel Harbour side, near the bridge across the Marina and the hill can be accessed from Fenella Beach car park.
The Tower itself is locked to the public at this time, but viewing the outside of the building and nearby graves are still worth the walk.
To claim the find you will need to go the bench at the posted cordinates and take a picture from near the bench to include, yourself (or your GPS), Corrins Folley & a piece of paper stating your geocaching name and the date. This picture must be posted with your log.
Secondly you need to answer the following question, the answer to which can be found at the entrance to the Tower:
What year did R Rodger etch his name on the top step?
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