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Car parking and registration is at the lakeside, outside Virginia College, the following is Google Maps link to the car parking location https://www.google.ie/maps/dir//53.8311701,-7.0846235/@53.8311891,-7.0848166,18z/data=!4m2!4m1!3e0

Road signage to the event carpark will be from the junction of Main St and New St in Virginia village. 

The Start/Finish is 800m from the carpark, (10 mins walk) and crosses the edge of the Golf course. Orienteers MUST give way to golfers and WALK while crossing the golf course.

Last Start 13:00,      Courses close 15:00.

Entries Fees:

Adult €8

OAPs, students & children €5

SI card rental €2

Refreshments will be provided at the event.

YELLOW       1.9K,  Climb 25m  9 Controls.
ORANGE       3.3K,  Climb 35m,  9 Controls.
RED              4.5K, Climb 50m,    11 Controls                        
L/GREEN      4.2K, Climb 90m,    14 Controls.
GREEN          5.2K,  Climb 120m, 15 Controls.
BLUE*           7.7K,  Climb 150m, 17 Controls.
Brown*         9.3K,  Climb 210m, 21 Controls.

 *Blue and Brown include a map exchange. The 2^nd map is on the reverse of the first. The 2^nd map starts with last control from the 1^st side of the map.

Planner: Dave Richardson

Controller: Chris Slattery

Organiser: Ciaran Young

Results are available at https://www.orienteering.ie/result2?oaction=moreResult&id=2900 

I had a lot of fun, thanks Fingal. Difficult conditions for helpers etc. I waited out the hail strom in the car and it was quite pleasant in the woods.
I\'m curious as to what paper you used. It wasn\'t aqualaser. I started with map out of bag but had it in by control 7 as I reckon the reverse would have been iffy by the time I flipped map over.

Thanks Ian,
Worth refering to previous thread here on this topic
https://www.orienteering.ie/forums?mingleforumaction=viewtopic&t=507
Yesterday\'s conditions were difficult but not unusual for an O event. You had the bags and so it worked out fine but I agree that the map was not robust enough. I mentioned I had map out of bag. The rain/hail had stopped though was still wet, but I didn\'t think conditions were bad but the map was deteriorating a bit too quick for my liking and quicker than I\'m accustomed to compared to aqualaser. Aqualaser is not brilliant either as many found at a Knocksink event couple years back and it tends to soak up dirt reducing legibility especially in boggy conditions.
Having waterproof maps with no bag is great, but it deasn\'t beat the clarity of printing on good quality \'normal\' paper and bagging it. This I found out after IOC2014