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Brian Boru Fort

Brian Boru Fort from directly overhead

Brian Boru Fort is an attraction, at a modelled elevation of 47 m. Keeper Hill stands 692 m to the east-southeast, 9.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Killaloe Community Garden, a garden 0.7 miles away.

How to reach it

Coordinates52.81888, -8.45159

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
  • Washerwoman Bridge: 0.9 mi
  • Derry Castle: 2.2 mi
  • Townlough Castle: 3.5 mi
  • Castle Baun: 5.7 mi
  • O'Grady's Castle: 6.5 mi
Peaks
  • Crag Mountain: 1.2 mi
  • Feenlea Mountain: 1.9 mi
  • Ballykildea Mountain: 2.1 mi
  • Moylussa: 3.1 mi
  • Tountinna: 3.2 mi
Springs
  • St. Patrick's Well: 4.5 mi
  • Tobernasool: 5.1 mi
  • Parker's Well: 5.6 mi
  • Lady Well: 6.6 mi
  • Saint Patrick's Well: 6.8 mi
Parks: 43
  • Bane Field: 0.7 mi
  • Castlelough Woods Park: 5.3 mi
  • Castlelough Woods: 5.3 mi
  • Tuamgraney Garden of Remembrance: 6.6 mi
  • Tuamgraney Famine Memorial Park: 6.7 mi
Attractions: 35
  • My Next Adventure: 1.0 mi
  • Rock: 1.2 mi
  • Model Farm 1850: 2.2 mi
  • Millenium Cross: 4.0 mi
  • Cast Iron Bridge: 4.5 mi
Gardens: 17
Museums: 13
Nature reserves: 4
  • The Pollagh Trail: 3.3 mi
  • Blessed Well: 7.9 mi
  • Coonagh Nature: 15.1 mi
  • Post Office Field: 22.4 mi
Beaches: 2
  • Yurty's Couch: 11.0 mi
  • White Sands: 15.4 mi
Waterfalls: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 15.3 miles of Brian Boru Fort. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Keeper HillESE 120°691.6 m9.2 mi
MauherslieveSE 125°543 m13.4 mi
MoylussaWNW 289°531.6 m3.1 mi
CragnamurraghW 275°526 m4.2 mi
Silvermine Mountains W TopESE 110°489 m8.2 mi
Silvermine Mountains E TopESE 109°479 m9.0 mi
Cooneen HillESE 106°467 m13.4 mi
CullaunSE 142°460 m13.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:3818:0118:47
June solstice05:0921:0622:03
September equinox07:2018:5019:35
December solstice08:4515:1516:20

Local time (Europe/Dublin).

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

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