Emerald Isle Fermanagh Sprint

Venue Florence Court National Trust

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Date Wednesday 3^rd May 2023

Starts 12:00 – 14:00
 

Event Description

Welcome to the National Trust property at Florence Court Co. Fermanagh. This splendid Georgian Mansion is set in extensive parkland surrounded by Florencecourt Forest. The event will take place around the Mansion buildings and its delightful pleasure and walled gardens. This venue was used for the Irish Sprint Championships in 2019.

Facilities

Toilets are in the Visitor Centre, close to Assembly.

The property offers House Tours (bookable in advance) and has a café.

Florence Court National Trust

Entry details

• Online entry at SiEntries from Sunday 5^th March.
• Entries close Tuesday 11th April at 22:00.

Entry Fees

(These include a Parking charge – NT members are eligible for a refund of this parking charge; see organiser at Assembly)

• Senior Members (Age class 21 and over) £8 Non-members £10
• Junior / Student Members £4 Non-members £5
• Maximum charge for a family Members £20 Non-members £25

• If you are entering a family and it comes to more than the above price then please contact the organiser for a refund of the difference. Parents accompanying children go free.
• SI timing card hire is free but is charged at replacement cost £30 if lost.

Parking 

Follow signs to parking close to Visitor Centre.

Terrain Notes

This area is crossed by a network of access roads and walking paths; many are wheelchair accessible; a little hilly the gradients are generally not steep. It is fast running terrain though some route choices through woodland may encounter small areas of sparse bramble.

A number of areas are mapped as olive green. Competitors MUST stay on the paths which pass through them. Access roads in particular are edged by hedges, some only beginning to mature. However, they are mapped with the dark green, ‘Impassable hedge’ symbol. Only mapped gaps or light green sections may be crossed.

Course Safety

Underfoot grass areas and embankments may prove slippery particularly after wet weather; courtyards are cobbled which can also be slippery.

Registration

Not required if using own SI Card – proceed directly to start. Hire cards can be collected from the Organiser in the carpark.

Start

The Start and Finish are close to the car park. Competitors will start at 1 minute intervals on each course.

Map

1:4000 drawn to ISSOM 2007 standards.

Finish & Download

After finishing proceed to download in the carpark.

Provisional Course Details 

Course	Length km	Height
Long	2.7	60
Medium	2.2	40
Short	1.4	30

Planner: Raymond Finlay  

Controller: Robbie Bryson  

Organiser: Teresa Finlay

NI Night Championship Results 2023

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NI Score Results 23

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NI Score and Night Championships 2023 – Final details

Parking

As you arrive at Todd’s Leap the normal Centre car parking area on the left is likely to be full. (70+ clients morning and afternoon!). Orienteers will be sign posted to a sharp turn right up a narrow steep tarmac road to park on hardstanding areas outside several Centre activity buildings. No toilets available here – you need to walk back down to the Centre for toilets.

From Parking the route to Start of the Score is in a northerly direction and will be signed and taped along a track and then a small path through thick conifers (approx. 400m)

Later, after the Score, The Centre carpark below may have emptied sufficiently to park down there for prizegiving and the Night Champs.

Safety

These are winter events in typically rugged terrain in a remote setting. All competitors will be expected to have available to them suitable clothing, footwear, a WHISTLE and a wind/waterproof CAG. These will be made compulsory if the weather is judged to be adverse.

In addition, on the Night event it will be essential to have a bright head torch and competitors are also advised to carry a spare light. (To get you back in case of an outage to your main light!)

Score event – Dunmoyle Forest Map scale 1:10000

Mass start at 2.00pm. Please arrive at Start at least 10 minutes early. Time limit 50 mins. 33 controls. ALL controls are worth 20pts (max.660) with 10pt penalty for every minute or part minute after 50 mins. Please check if you have an old SI card (type 5 or 8). It may not hold enough control visits. You may borrow a suitable one if you contact Teresa before Saturday.

Courses close with flags being lifted from 3.30pm.

Night event – Todd’s Leap Activity Centre Map scale 1:4000 (Not a Sprint map)

We would intend to start as soon as it is dark hopefully no later than 6.15pm. Courses will close at 8.00pm.

Further terrain and map notes

Some of the streams in both of these areas are ravine-like with very steep sometimes craggy sides. They should never be followed up or down and only crossed where they flatten out.

The Night’s 4000 scale map has non-standard symbols for tracks; thinner to provide clarity.

There are two large hard-standing areas common to both maps which the Centre uses to stash old or obsolete items around the edge. These are indicated by the use of a wide purple line symbol which should not be crossed. On these areas there is also UNMAPPED stacked or parked mobile activity equipment and vehicles which will need to be negotiated as seen!

There is an Out-of-bounds area common to both maps marked with purple crossed lines (the paintball area!) It is not planned to be in use on Saturday but please avoid entering it.

General

Toilets are available at the main Centre Building through the Reception door turn left.

Consuming your own food is not permitted inside the Centre building or the covered outside Beer Garden. The Centre offers a Pub Grub menu.

The NI Prizegiving will be upstairs in the main Centre building in their conference room. Going through the Reception door the stairs are on the left. We would intend this to start at approx. 4.00pm

Dogs are not permitted on site, even on leads.

Finally

Please remember you enter Orienteering events at your own risk. You have an obligation and a responsibility to:

• arrive fit and well and with appropriate clothing and equipment;
• ‘find your way’ safely;
• report to the organisers at download when you have finished or even if you retire from the event.

NI Score and Night Championships 2023 (Updated)

NI Score and Night Championships   2023

Fermanagh Orienteers invite you to the Score and Night Championships and NI Prizegiving.

Venue Todd’s Leap Activity Centre – liver.warping.seabirds

Date Saturday, 25^th February, 2023
 

Directions From Belfast/Dublin/Enniskillenfollow A5 from Ballygawley towards Omagh. After approx. 2miles from Ballygawley roundabout turn right onto Tullyglush Rd (Brown – Todd’s Leap signage) then Todd’s Leap Rd. Entrance to Todd’s Leap Activity Centre is on the left.

From Omagh follow the A5 towards Ballygawley. After approx. 14 miles turn left onto Tullyglush Rd (Brown – Todd’s Leap signage) then Todd’s Leap Rd.

Parking Look for signage to Orienteering parking.

Facilities Toilets available in Todd’s Leap Activity Centre. Food/drinks available from Bar Menu (contact centre for times and menu).

Please note:- the centre will have a large number of clients onsite taking part in various activities so it will be very busy.

Entry details

• Online entry at SiEntries from Thursday 2^nd February 2023.
• Entries close at midnight on Sunday 19th February 2023.

The NI Prizegiving will be held after the Score. See below.

Entry Fees

	Member		Non-Member
One Event	Two Events	One Event	Two Events
Senior (aged 21 or over)	£10	£16	£12	£18
Junior or Student	£5	£8	£6	£9
Maximum charge for a family*	£25	£40	£30	£45

*If you are entering a family and it comes to more than rates in the bottom row then please contact the organiser after you have paid for the individual Senior, or Junior/Student entries and we will arrange a refund of the difference. Parents accompanying children go free. SI timing card hire is free but lost cards are charged at a replacement cost of £30.

Score Championships Dunmoyle Forest (adjacent to Todd’s Leap, Co Tyrone)

Mass Start 2pm

Classes         

M/W Open

M/W Vet 45+

M/W Super Vet 55+

M/W Ultra Vet 65+

M/W18-

M/W14-

 Map This forest was mapped in late January 2023. The scale is 1:10,000

Terrain notes This is a mixed mainly conifer woodland with some rough moorland and recently felled areas. Extensive mature areas give generally fast running. There is a network of forest roads and an extensive pattern of unofficial mountain bike trails not all of which are mapped. There are steep slopes and ravines to be negotiated.

Toilets available in Todd’s Leap Activity Centre. Outside ones opposite the ‘Beer Garden’ and indoor ones (no studs please.) through the reception entrance.

Officials

• Planner – Raymond Finlay
• Controller – Robbie Bryson
• Organiser – Teresa Finlay

NI Prizegiving

This will take place in the Todd’s Leap Activity Centre. If you know you are a prize-winner, please try to stay on to collect your prize. We would urge even those members who are not winners and/or not staying for the Night Champs to come along to applaud the prize winners. We aim to start at 4.00 pm. (Course closure on the ‘Score’ will be 3.00 pm)

It will take place in the Centre’s Conference Room upstairs through the Reception door. Please note the Centre provides a reasonably priced ‘Pub Grub’ menu but does not permit the consumption of your own food in the Beer Garden or the indoor bar area so please eat any food brought with you at your car. Access to the Centre’s many and varied activities must be pre-booked. Their website is toddsleap.com

Night Championships Todd’s Leap Activity Centre, Co Tyrone

Directions As above.  Fees as above.

Starts available from 6.00 – 7.00pm.  Courses close 8.00pm.

Course/Class combinations           

Course	Classes	Provisional
1	M Open, W Open	3.0 km 180m
2	M45+, M55+, W45+	2.4 km 140m
3	W55+, M16-, W16-	1.9 km 110m

Map This Centre was mapped in late January 2023. The scale is 1:4,000 for clarity. It is not a Sprint map

Terrain notes the event will mainly be within the narrow and very unusual and compact grounds of the Activity Centre. These grounds sweep down along a very steep wooded East and South-east facing slope split by deep ravines. The woodland on the slope is passable. There is a very complex and confusing maze of tracks (many churned up by 4×4 vehicles!), paths, rough trails and fences mostly crossable. These all weave up, over and across the slope. There are a variety of unusual point features; animal sculptures and activity equipment! (There is also numerous unmapped small mobile activity equipment!) The ground is generally wet with a few streams and ponds. All courses will visit some rough moorland with the Long and Medium also crossing to the other side of the main road (very quiet but take care!).

Officials

• Planner – Raymond Finlay
• Controller – Robbie Bryson
• Organiser – Teresa Finlay

NI Score and Night Championships 2023

Fermanagh Orienteers invite you to the Score and Night Championships on Saturday 25^th February 2023.

The NI Prizegiving will be held after the Score.

We hope to have a new map for these events and will publish details in early February. SiEntries will also open then.

Frostbite 23 – 3 Florencecourt West end

Sunday 15 January 2023

Don’t let the shortness of the courses fool you! It is a ‘barebones’ type of event where participants are expected to be experienced orienteers and who come with all necessary clothing (for very cold/wet winter conditions) and equipment including a plastic bag (A4) for map cover (plain paper and printed on ink-jet). Please ring 028 66348937 or email raymondfinlay@btinternet.com at least 24 hrs in advance to book a map.

Activity charge £5 for all participants. 

Registration between 9.15 – 9.45. Starts between 9.30 and 10.00am Courses will close at 11.30. (so that everyone can have Sunday Lunch!)

Terrain notes: Courses negotiate well featured open limestone grassland hillside descending into mature conifer interspersed with winter levels of undergrowth and occasionally negotiable clear-felled areas. On the ground decisions may pay dividends, or not!

Assembly: located on Marlbank Road (on a bend 400m beyond the left turn mentioned below)

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10 miles from Enniskillen following directions for Sligo then Marble Arch Caves. Through Florencecourt village and then 3 miles west. Sign then indicates to turn left to Marble Arch Caves.

Parking is limited to roadside and care is needed to ensure safe parking and vehicle access to the field gate.

Courses – None of these are suitable for beginners or young juniors! Please choose carefully as terrain is demanding.

Long 4K 145m

Short 2.8K 120m

Very Short 2K 90m.

Starts are a 10-minute uphill walk following tapes from parking.

Finish 5 min walk back to parking.

Planner Damian Gribbin

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Travel directions

Follow road signs for Marble Arch Caves. Coming from the Enniskillen direction go past the Caves entrance approximately 1 Km to the second of the Killykeegan Nature Reserve carparks where registration/download is situated.

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Don’t let the shortness of the courses fool you! It is a ‘barebones’ type of event where participants are expected to be experienced orienteers and who come with all necessary clothing (for very cold/wet winter conditions) and equipment including a plastic bag (A4) for map cover (plain paper and printed on ink-jet). Please ring 028 66348937 or email raymondfinlay@btinternet.com at least 24 hrs in advance to book a map.

Activity charge £5 for all participants.  

Registration between 9.15 – 9.45. Starts between 9.30 and 10.00am Courses will close at 11.30. (so as everyone can have Sunday Lunch!)

Terrain Notes

This is not a place for beginners! The courses are technically difficult and will mainly use the West side of the area. The terrain in the West consists of complex limestone upland, clothed in places by low visibility scrub woodland and rough open farmland. The ground conditions vary, with rough and stony limestone pavement, boggy moorland and short grass meadows. Fences and walls will need to be negotiated, some of which are in poor condition. Please report any damage.

Courses – None of these are suitable for beginners or young juniors!

Long course – 4Km (140m)

Short course – 2.8Km (70m)

Very Short course – 1.9Km (30m)

Frostbite 1 Callow Hill

Saturday 31st December

Course 1 – LONG (TD5) 3.5Km 150m

Course 2 – SHORT (TD5) 2.4Km 125m

Course 3 – Very SHORT (TD5) 1.6Km 90m

Don’t let the shortness of the courses fool you! It is a ‘barebones’ type of event where participants are expected to be experienced orienteers and who come with all necessary clothing (for very cold/wet winter conditions) and equipment including a plastic bag (A4) for map cover (plain paper and printed on ink-jet). Please ring 028 66348937 or email raymondfinlay@btinternet.com at least 24 hrs in advance to book a map.

Activity charge £5 for all participants. Registration between 9.15 – 9.45. Starts between 9.30-10.00. Courses close 11.30 (so as everyone can have Sunday Lunch!)

 From Enniskillen follow A46 signs for Belleek then as you leave the town take a left on to the B81 for Derrygonnelly. Towards the end of the main street in Derrygonnelly turn left towards St Patrick’s RC Church. At church, turn right onto minor road immediately after large carpark. Follow for 3km. Restricted parking on very narrow road (please don’t block entrances). Car share if possible. Start and Finish close to Registration

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Steep, hilly very fast heavily contoured limestone with rock features. Excellent for testing and practising technical map reading skills. Mostly open grassland with scrub woodland areas. Take care crossing old, dilapidated fences and report any damage. . The area is exposed, so in adverse conditions (remember the time of year!) cags and whistles will be compulsory.

Results NICS 6 Castle Archdale

Brown 6.5km 190m				
1	Valdas Tylunas	3ROC	M45	00:57:57
2	Steven Linton	NWOC	M55	01:03:58
3	George Savell	LVO	M21	01:06:42
4	Chris Colwell	LVO	M21	01:27:19
5	Michael Burton	LVO	M60	01:27:31
6	Michael Young	NONE	M21	01:34:18
7	Alan Elwood	LVO	M50	01:35:15
8	Stephanie PruzinaLVO	W55	01:54:38
9	Ross Walker	NWOC	M40	02:06:07
10	Sarah Knight	LVO	W21	02:18:36
11	Billy Fyffe	FERMO	M65	02:21:16
				
Blue 5.4km 140m				
1	Philip McGoldrickFERMO	M45	01:07:48
2	Ciara Largey	FERMO	W35	01:16:09
3	Damian Gribbin	FERMO	M50	01:19:45
4	Bobby Smyth	NWOC	M50	01:20:07
5	Brian Johnston	LVO	M50	01:22:40
6	Moire O'SullivanLVO	W45	01:23:31
7	Richard Gamble	LVO	M45	01:25:35
8	Kenny Weir	LVO	M60	01:27:15
9	Anastasia MahlychLVO	W16	01:32:57
10	Heather Cairns	LVO	W55	01:34:27
11	David Blair	NWOC	M65	01:35:53
12	Susan Lambe	LVO	W40	01:37:55
13	Chloe Reed	LVO	W21	01:39:32
14	Stephen Gilmore	LVO	M60	01:47:48
15	Anthony McGonigleNWOC	M65	01:55:54
16	Philip Baxter	LVO	M70	01:55:59
17	Geoffrey CollinsLVO	M55	01:59:53
18	Lesley Young	LVO	W40	02:05:41
19	Mac Philpott	NWOC	M55	02:05:52
20	Peter Gamble	LVO	M16	02:08:42
21	Henry MontgomeryLVO	M55	02:31:01
	Andrew Lennox	LVO	M40	rtd
				
Green 4.0km 100m				
1	Pauric Quinn	FERMO	M55	01:10:29
2	Per-Olov ElovssonFIN	M60	01:12:25
3	Ann Savage	LVO	W65	01:12:35
4	Gerry Meehan	NWOC	M65	01:16:02
5	Helen Baxter	LVO	W65	01:16:21
6	Charlie Reid	NWOC	M60	01:22:42
7	Nigel Foley-FisherLVO	M70	01:24:11
8	Teresa Finlay	FERMO	W70	01:24:15
9	Roxanne White	DUO	W55	01:26:01
10	Richard WilliamsonLVO	M70	01:33:39
11	Bill Hopkins	LVO	M70	01:41:37
12	Ryan Fitzpatrick	M35	01:49:29
13	Alison Collins	LVO	W55	02:22:47
	Michael Murphy	LVO	M60	w3
	Barbara Foley-FisherLVO	W70	w3
				
Short Green 2.8km 50m				
1	Ruth Blair	NWOC	W55	00:53:18
2	Peter Howe	NWOC	M60	01:09:28
3	Francis O'ReillyFERMO	M60	01:12:29
4	Daphne Hamond	LVO	W65	02:01:43
5	Rosemary Croley	LVO	W80	02:10:24
n/c	Mark Pruzina	LVO	M55	00:51:48
				
Light Green 2.9km 50m				
1	Andrew Green	NONE	M21	01:20:03
2	Mark Hopkins	LVO	M45	01:34:32
3	Lauren Howe	NWOC	W21	01:37:13
4	Danny McBarron	FERMO	M35	01:41:38
5	Adrian Coyle	FERMO	M45	01:45:26
6	Ruby Linton	NWOC	W16	01:49:52
				
Orange 2.6km 70m				
1	Jenny Orr	LVO	W70	01:21:36
2	Rachel Reid	NWOC	W60	01:23:39
3	Stefano Rizzo	FERMO	M21	02:05:41
	Sam Lennox		M14	w6
				
Yellow 2.2km 40m				
1	Stefano Rizzo	FERMO	M21	00:23:44
2	Aran Power	LVO	M10	00:34:43
				
White 1.4km 30m				
1	Cahal Power	LVO	M10	00:15:48