Moneydarragh Hillside Traditional Cache

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Cuilcagh: It appears your cache is missing - the throwdown of a plastic bag is not sufficient as a replacement.

This is covered under the local Guidelines for Ireland and they really shouldn't be used as animals tend to eat them and they create a horrible damp environment that after a while becomes filled with algae and slugs. If you use a good weather and waterproof container then you shouldn't need a bag.

This Help Centre article gives some good advice on containers Help Centre Link

Please replace your missing cache before Enabling the cache again.

Many thanks,

Cuilcagh - Community Volunteer Reviewer for Geocaching HQ (Ireland)
Ireland Wiki Link

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briansnat,
Charter Member

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Hidden : 2/5/2024
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:


This cache is placed near the historic site of a crash of a WWII Spitfire plane in 1941. 

Flown by American pilot Roland “Bud” Wolfe, it had taken off from RAF Eglinton in November 1941 a short distance across the border in Northern Ireland on a patrol mission. But Pilot Officer Wolfe was forced to bail out and abandon the plane after the engine overheated, leaving it to crash into the rugged Inishowen peninsula. The crash caused a diplomatic incident, with the 23-year-old Nebraska man briefly held in an internment camp in the neutral Republic of Ireland, only to escape weeks later and catch the train from Dublin over the border to Belfast.

The lack of oxygen in the clay bog where his plane ended up protected it from the passage of time and the wreck, recovered in 2011 by an archaeological team, is now bound for a museum in Derry.

But in a symbolic gesture, the tailwheel of the Mark IIa Spitfire P8074 has been given to City of Derry Airport, where the plane’s RAF 133 (Eagle) squadron was based during the war.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Jura ybbxvat ng gur ovt znc gnxr 7 cnprf gb gur yrsg.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
-------------------------
N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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