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Jenny McCauley

Irish mountain biker

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2024
Entity authorityQ17104427 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jenny McCauley (born 8 July 1974) is an Irish cyclist. She competed in the women's cross-country mountain biking event at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Jenny McCauley” as irish mountain biker. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Jenny, McCauley and Irish.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974, 2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1974-07-18. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Jenny, McCauley and Irish providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Jenny McCauley”, the useful work is to connect “irish mountain biker” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 2, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q17104427. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1974 and 2004.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
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Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Jenny McCauley”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Jenny McCauley primary sources, Jenny McCauley archive and Jenny research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Jenny McCauley”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Jenny McCauley” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.