{"id":4924,"date":"2020-06-16T09:46:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T13:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=4924"},"modified":"2020-06-16T09:50:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T13:50:29","slug":"episode-67-bunmahon-ireland-we-csn-crawl-into-the-old-mine-through-a-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=4924","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 67 BUNMAHON, IRELAND “WE CSN CRAWL INTO THE OLD MINE THROUGH A HOLE”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John,  EPISODE 67 will be coming soon\u2026but first let me introduce a change<\/div>\n
in approach.  I will suspend the journal for a moment because this mine adventure<\/div>\n
was  a major turning point in the project for me.  It was not company policy until<\/div>\n
a little later.  Send the note below to our readers.<\/div>\n

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alan<\/div>\n

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EPISODE 67   BUNMAHON , IRELAND\u201d \u201cWE CAN CRAWL INTO THE OLD MINE THROUGH A HOLE\u201d<\/p>\n


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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
June 2020<\/div>\n

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\u201cI know where there\u2019s a hole.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cA hole ?”<\/div>\n
\u201cYes,, a hole in the cliff.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cSo?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cSo we can squeeze through the hole and get into the old mine.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cYou must be kidding, Barney\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cNo,  I\u2019ve crawled  into the hole many times.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cCuriosity.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cCan you take me there?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cSure, this Saturday if you want.\u201d<\/div>\n

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SATURDAY JULY 23,1960<\/div>\n

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Note:  Saturday July 23, 1960, I was told  by Barney Dawn that it was<\/div>\n
possum;e tp squeeze through an old adit (an air vent) and actually enter<\/div>\n
te Knockmaon mine.   This event was a climax point in the Bunmahon<\/div>\n
adventure.   I had a choice.  Take a risk and enter the mine.  Or<\/div>\n
play  it safe and  do  nothing other than our surface work.  I chose<\/div>\n
the risk taking venture.  Why?  Because I was 21 years old\u2026young<\/div>\n
and foolish.  Adventure seeking.  Crawling through that air vent<\/div>\n
was not part of my job so, at first,  Barney, Andy and I did  it on evenings<\/div>\n
or Sundays.  Later both John Hogan and Dr. John Stam decided<\/div>\n
to get involved in underground exploration when we were made<\/div>\n
aware of a legend lost cow in an old mine entrance inland from<\/div>\n
the sea.   The results of that venture were startling.<\/div>\n

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So I have decided to give these ventures special consideration\u2026and<\/div>\n
a special heading.   A question for you to think about: Would you crawl<\/div>\n
through that hole in the cliff face?   Would you do it when you were 21?<\/div>\n

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GOING UNDERGROUND WITH BARNEY <\/div>\n

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(coming next)<\/div>\n

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John,  EPISODE 67 will be coming soon\u2026but first let me introduce a change in approach.  I will suspend the journal for a moment because this mine adventure was  a major turning point in the project for me.  It was not company policy until a little later.  Send the note below to our readers. alan EPISODE […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}