Blackrock Heritage Trail - Millenium Sun Dial Traditional Cache
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Blackrock Heritage Trail - Millenium Sun Dial
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This is another in a short series that is based around the Blackrock Heritage Trail.
The cache itself is a very small magnetic micro container. BYOP. Won't be easy to access on a warm summer day due to muggle activity.
Free parking is available along the sea front.
Blackrock's Millennium Sundial is situated in a large paved area in the centre of the promenade. Erected during 2000 to mark the millennium year, it is 7.3 metres in diameter and is believed to be the largest sundial in a public place in Ireland. The 3 metre high gnomon (the part which casts the shadow) comprises a bronze sculpture of a female diving figure, created by local artist Tanya Nyegaard, on a hexagonal stone pedestal. The numerals on the "face" of the sundial are 30 cms high and are engraved in black granite. Inscriptions in English and Irish on the pedestal read "Anno Domini 2000. To commemorate the jubilee of the birth of Christ, and to mark the beginning of a new millennium". The year is also expressed in Roman numerals MM, reflecting the time of Christ, and in binary notation 11111010000 to reflect today's computer age. An old Irish seanfhocal on the "face" of the sundial relates the linkage between time and the sea, "Ag tuile 'is ag trá a chaitheann an fharraige an lá" (flowing and ebbing is how the sea spends the day). A glass time capsule is incorporated into the foundation of the sundial and contains pictures and other items collected from the public in Blackrock during 2000. The name Aisling was assigned to the sculpture following a poll in the village in 2001.
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Orybj, prager