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Murals of Country Life

Murals of Country Life from directly overhead

Murals of Country Life is an artwork, at a modelled elevation of 38 m. Keeper Hill stands 692 m to the east, 7.6 miles off.

Depicts a typical scene from a dairy farm of bygone years, here cows grazing in a field.

The record

What the record says

Built
2006-08
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Coordinates52.76540, -8.44095
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
  • Washerwoman Bridge: 3.0 mi
  • Church of St. John: 4.0 mi
  • The old mill and creamery: 4.0 mi
  • Castle Connell: 4.5 mi
  • Castle Weller: 5.0 mi
Springs
  • Tobernasool: 3.5 mi
  • Cork Well: 3.6 mi
  • Tobergal: 5.8 mi
  • St. Patrick's Well: 7.5 mi
  • Parker's Well: 7.7 mi
Peaks
  • Ballykildea Mountain: 4.2 mi
  • Doonan's Hill: 4.3 mi
  • Lackareagh Mountain: 4.3 mi
  • Crag Mountain: 4.6 mi
  • Knockaun: 4.9 mi
Parks: 45
  • Bane Field: 3.0 mi
  • Newport Town Park: 4.1 mi
  • Castlelough Woods Park: 8.6 mi
  • Castlelough Woods: 8.7 mi
  • Fairy Garden: 9.2 mi
Attractions: 34
  • Cast Iron Bridge: 1.9 mi
  • Inishlosky Island: 2.0 mi
  • Inishlosky Church: 2.1 mi
  • The Capstan: 2.5 mi
  • parking na O'Briena bridge: 2.6 mi
Artworks: 23
Gardens: 16
Museums: 13
Nature reserves: 4
  • The Pollagh Trail: 0.5 mi
  • Blessed Well: 10.4 mi
  • Coonagh Nature: 13.0 mi
  • Post Office Field: 23.4 mi
Beaches: 2
  • Yurty's Couch: 8.1 mi
  • White Sands: 18.7 mi
Waterfalls: 1
Picnic sites: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 15.0 miles of Murals of Country Life. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Keeper HillE 97°691.6 m7.6 mi
MauherslieveESE 110°543 m11.3 mi
MoylussaNW 324°531.6 m5.8 mi
CragnamurraghNW 312°526 m6.2 mi
Silvermine Mountains W TopE 83°489 m7.3 mi
Silvermine Mountains E TopE 84°479 m8.1 mi
Cooneen HillE 90°467 m12.4 mi
CullaunSE 132°460 m10.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

The recorded facing catches the sunrise.

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:3818:0118:47
June solstice05:1021:0622:03
September equinox07:2018:5019:35
December solstice08:4415:1516:21

Local time (Europe/Dublin).

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/10874795278

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