The Bayno Multi-cache
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The Iveagh Play Centre was built by Edward Guinness, the 1st Earl of Iveagh in 1913. It was established as a place for local children to participate in out of school activities and games. The children were also given cakes and drinks, a real feast at the time. The old word 'beanfeast' which can describe any kind of party, was shortened to 'beano', which, in the Dublin vernacular, became The Bayno.
This is a short multi-stage cache which has a total walking distance of less than 200 metres.
The reference coordinates will bring you to Bull Alley St, which borders St.Patrick's Cathedral Park. This is the site of The Bayno, The Iveagh Play Centre, now the Liberties College. It is surrounded to the East and West by accommodation blocks and to the North, across the playing yard, by Iveagh House, which was the administrative centre of the Trust.
You can watch this short video which will give you a sense of what The Bayno meant before it closed in 1975.
The Iveagh Trust is a provider of affordable housing in and around Dublin. It was initially a component of the Guinness Trust, founded in 1890 by Lord Iveagh, great-grandson of the founder of the Guinness Brewery, to help homeless people in Dublin and London. However, the Iveagh Trust became a separate organisation in 1903 with responsibility for activities in Ireland and was given a statutory legal basis by the "Dublin Improvement (Bull Alley Area) Act" of 1903.
Many of the buildings in this area were built by the Iveagh Trust, including the Iveagh Public Baths and the Iveagh Markets building on Francis Street. Lord Iveagh also made donations to St Patrick's Cathedral and created the St Patrick's Park gardens in 1901 between the cathedral and the Iveagh Trust buildings. Today's buildings were therefore only a part of a larger urban renewal plan, at a time when Dublin was infamous for its poverty and its unsanitary tenements.
Stage One: You will see an old fashioned painted lamp post bearing the Dublin City Coat of Arms and the (quaint) city motto in Latin. It translates as "The obedience of the citizens produces a happy city", but how many incidences of the letter 'i' appear in the Latin version?
Call this A
Stage Two: How many steps would the children climb?
Call this B
Stage Three: What date appears on the building here?
Call this CDEF
Stage Four: These gates will lead into the playground behind The Bayno. How many iron circles in total?
Call this G
Stage Five: How many copper domes?
Call this H
Now calculate the final:
N53 20. (H) (A-F) (C-F)
W006 16. (B+C-A) (G-A+F) (DxE+C)
The cache is a magnetic micro located a short walk from the area. The log can be extracted using the magnet at the bottom. Please remember to bring a pen make your writing really, really tiny :)
Have fun!
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Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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