Place 54: Eddie Corcoran / canal bank
19 June 1958At Bassey Park beside the canal. The boy's last movements constrain the park and bank, but not a precise tree or coordinate.
About Eddie Corcoran / canal bank
The Eddie Corcoran marker lies on the Canal bank in Bassey Park, where his last movements are traced on 19 June 1958. The water continues from this part of the park toward a covered wooden footbridge linking Bassey Park with Derry High School. That bridge and the park establish the scene within a recognizable civic landscape rather than the wilder Barrens downstream. The point represents the relevant bank area; it does not assign the event to a surviving tree or park fixture.
Why this pin is marked A
Named in the novel. The street or the site is named in the text; the exact lot is the atlas’s.
Level A follows from the explicit placement in Bassey Park beside the Canal and the directional relationship to the covered footbridge and high school. These named anchors fix the correct park and stretch of water with good confidence. They do not yield a unique coordinate along the bank. The atlas therefore marks a representative point consistent with the route, while the precise tree, path, bank profile and distance from the bridge remain unspecified.
