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Céide Fields

Céide Fields from directly overhead

Céide Fields is an attraction, at a modelled elevation of 112 m. Nephin stands 806 m to the south, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Ceide Fields, a attraction less than a tenth of a mile away. Wild Atlantic Way runs past it. 122 named places lie within 25 miles, 40 of them named summits.

The story

Neolithic site in the West of Ireland

Wikidata Q1150321, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

What to expect

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates54.30716, -9.45708

Overlooks nearby

122 named places within 25 miles

Peaks: 40
Historic sites: 35
  • St Patrick: 4.6 mi
  • Glinsk Signal Tower: 6.3 mi
  • Rathlacken Court Cairn: 7.2 mi
  • Creevagh Signal Tower: 7.3 mi
  • Castlelacken: 8.1 mi
Springs: 14
  • Tobercarney: 5.1 mi
  • Bride's Well: 8.2 mi
  • St Cummins Well: 10.2 mi
  • Tobercashleen: 11.8 mi
  • Tobernasool: 12.4 mi
Attractions: 9
Beaches: 4
  • Glengad Beach: 14.6 mi
  • Enniscrone Beach: 15.4 mi
  • Portnacully Beach: 18.8 mi
  • Trá na Sraithe: 22.2 mi
Parks: 3
  • The Inter Communication Park: 11.5 mi
  • Castle Fields: 16.2 mi
  • Easkey Abbey: 20.1 mi
Gardens: 3
  • Kitchen Garden: 15.5 mi
  • Walled Garden: 18.1 mi
  • Grow It Yourself Ballina Community Garden: 18.3 mi
Cliffs: 2
  • Blowhole: 1.0 mi
  • Pollatarrive: 5.8 mi
Museums: 1
  • The Jackie Clarke Collection: 18.1 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Céide Fields. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
NephinS 170°806 m20.6 mi
Slieve CarrSSW 206°721 m18.4 mi
BirreencorraghS 183°698 m22.3 mi
GlennamongSSW 201°628 m23.3 mi
Nephin BegSSW 200°627 m20.3 mi
BuckooghS 187°588 m24.5 mi
Birreencorragh South TopS 183°564 m23.5 mi
Birreencorragh West TopS 185°551 m22.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4218:0418:51
June solstice05:0421:1722:17
September equinox07:2418:5219:39
December solstice08:5715:0516:16

Local time (Europe/Dublin).

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/361603931

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