H8077 : Flush Bracket, Cookstown

taken 10 years ago, near to Cookstown, Co Tyrone, Northern Ireland

Flush Bracket, Cookstown
Flush Bracket, Cookstown
Flush bracket bench mark on the rear wall of the Church of the Most Holy Trinity, Cookstown - see H8077 : Church of the Most Holy Trinity, Cookstown & H8177 : Church of the Most Holy Trinity, Cookstown.
The number on the bracket is OSNIBM 2002.
The mark has been levelled to 75.55 metres above MSL.

A note on brackets numbered OSNIBM 2001-2055: all of these are located in County Tyrone and were sited when the county was surveyed in the mid 1930s. At this time counties in Ulster were surveyed individually (with Belfast also subject to its own survey). The plan appeared to be to survey Tyrone (which was completed) and then move onto Armagh, however the Second World War intervened and the latter never happened (they only got as far as establishing 4 flush brackets numbered 2097-2100 in Armagh city and Portadown). After the war ended plans changed and Northern Ireland was surveyed in its entirety for the first time in the 1950s - many of these early flush brackets were reused for that survey (this one was included in the primary line between Magherafelt and Armagh) but some in very obscure locations were never used again. OSNIBM 2001 was located on a primary school in Cookstown but this, like a few others, has been destroyed.
Bench Mark

Bench marks LinkExternal link were historically used to record the height above sea level of a location as surveyed against the Mean Sea Level data (taken at Clarendon Dock, Belfast, for Northern Ireland data, Newlyn in Cornwall for data in Great Britain and Portmoor Pier, Malin Head, for data relating to the Republic of Ireland). They were used as part of a greater surveying network by the UK Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland (OSNI) and the Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSI). If the exact height of one bench mark is known then the exact height of the next can be found by measuring the difference in heights, through a process of spirit levelling. In this way hundreds of thousands of bench marks were sited all around the UK & Ireland from the mid 19th to late 20th centuries. There are several distinct types of bench mark:

- Fundamental bench marks have been constructed at selected sites where foundations can be set on stable strata such as bedrock. Each FBM consists of a buried chamber with a brass bolt set in the top of a granite pillar. See NG8825 : Dornie fundamental bench mark for an example. FBMs were used in Ireland as well as GB but those in Ireland do not have any surface markers, nor are they marked on standard maps.
- Flush brackets consist of metal plates about 90 mm wide and 175 mm long. Each bracket has a unique serial number. They are most commonly found on most Triangulation Pillars, some churches or on other important civic buildings. See J3270 : Flush Bracket, Belfast for an example.
- Cut bench marks are the commonest form of mark. They consist of a horizontal bar cut into a wall or brickwork and are found just about anywhere. A broad arrow is cut immediately below the centre of the horizontal bar. See J3372 : Bench Mark, Belfast for an example. The horizontal mark may be replaced by or contain a bolt - see J1486 : Bench Mark, Antrim.
Other marks include:
- Projecting bench marks such as SD8072 : Projecting Bracket Benchmark on St Oswald's Tower
- Bolt bench marks such as SJ1888 : OSBM bolt on Hilbre Island
- Rivet bench marks such as J3978 : Bench Mark, Holywood
- Pivot bench marks such as SJ2661 : Pivot bench mark on Leeswood Bridge

Bench marks are commonly found on older buildings or other semi-permanent features such as stone bridges or walls. Due to updated mapping techniques and technological advances such as GPS, bench marks are no longer maintained. Many are still in existence and the markers will probably remain until they are eventually destroyed by redevelopment or erosion.

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H8077, 5 images   (more nearby search)
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Date Taken
Thursday, 12 June, 2014   (more nearby)
Submitted
Monday, 16 June, 2014
Geographical Context
Historic sites and artefacts  Religious sites  City, Town centre 
Place (from Tags)
Cookstown 
Subject Location
Irish: geotagged! H 80995 77816 [1m precision]
WGS84: 54:38.5202N 6:44.7745W
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Irish: geotagged! H 80995 77816
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EAST (about 90 degrees)
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