"Real Handy" Traditional Cache
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A round 4.5 litre plastic container, not to far from the road but not to close, boots would be best.
As so many monuments on hills in this country which are unknown by those of us that drive by this one is for Neil Munro the author of the PAra Handy Tales. The local legend states it is on the hill because the land owner would not allow the monument on his land and this spot is the first available area near Inverary.
Neil Munro was born in the little town of Inveraray near the head of Loch Fyne in Argyll, an area of exceptional beauty which was to influence him all his life. He was born to Ann Munro, a kitchen maid, perhaps at Inveraray Castle, in the building known as Crombie's Land on 3rd June 1863. Soon after, Neil and his mother moved in with his grandmother Anne McArthur Munro who lived in a one-roomed house in McVicar's Land (now known as Arkland II). His grandmother hailed from Bailemeanoch on Loch Aweside and she brought up Neil's mother in Glen Aray in the landward part of Inveraray parish on a farm called Ladyfield. Both were native speakers of Gaelic and it is from them that the young Neil received his knowledge of the old language and culture. Indeed, he spent much of his childhood in Glen Aray and it was to become the setting for many of the tales in his The Lost Pibroch and Other Sheiling Stories. It seems likely also that Neil lived for some of his life in accommodation in Inveraray Jail. His mother appears to have been employed there and in 1875 she married Malcolm Thomson, the governor, after he had retired.
The cache is not far from the monument,
It includes the normal swaps. Becareful to replace it and hide it well.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Boivbhf srngher, haqre zbff.
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