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Mourneman

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Dam walk
« on: May 16, 2012 »
 Took a dander along the Silent valley & Ben Crom dams today,came across some interesting thing's while walking around them...


P5160020 by anne1257, on Flickr

The overflow system on Silent valley dam which has a 25 metre drop, :P & is surprisingly easy to walk over to...?


Panorama273 by anne1257, on Flickr

  Sure i just had too


P5160022 by anne1257, on Flickr

I'am not a religious person in any sense,but i think things like this are nice,must have been a special place for them.


P5160031 by anne1257, on Flickr

Binnian tunnel,now i don't take risk normally but i'd love to have a wee look


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the 292  :P steps leading up to Ben Crom reserve


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Ben crom from below,look's like a nice wee scramble up


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nine men killed in the building of the dam's ,think i'll have a look into this a bit more.

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nice coffee shop within the grounds
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Re: Dam walk
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2012 »
instead of taking the straight route up from the top of the car park,past the ponds, you can take off to the left halfway up the car park, i think it's the black route, adds a few kms onto the journey to the dam, but also brings you through the remains of the workers village.

also have heard that the whole workers village is still beneath the water at spelga, they cant get divers to go down to check the state of the walls as the scaffold is still in place from 1910 odd!!!!
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Re: Dam walk
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Re: Dam walk
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2012 »
Mourneman,

links to an earlier post and discussion might be of interest to you.

http://www.ni-wild.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1150.msg10120#msg10120

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Re: Dam walk
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2012 »
Great stuff. I might go back and do this walk again as a gentle reintroduction to exercise.
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