The Formal Garden at The Royal Hospital Kilmainham
The Formal Garden at The Royal Hospital Kilmainham is an attraction, at a modelled elevation of 13 m. Kippure stands 757 m to the south, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Formal Gardens, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away.
The Garden was completed at the same time as the Royal Hospital. It was first developed as a pleasure garden and the sunken nature of the garden, situated below the level of the Royal Hospital building, was very much the fashion of the time.
The story
former hospital
Dates from 1684.
Wikidata Q12859559, matched on coordinates and name (108 m apart).
What to expect
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Formal Gardens: 0.0 mi
- People's Garden: 0.5 mi
- Flanagan's Fields Community Garden: 0.6 mi
- Visual Culture Garden: 0.9 mi
- Cultural Garden: 1.1 mi
- Royal Hospital Kilmainham: 0.1 mi
- Kilmainham Gaol: 0.4 mi
- Pearse Lyons: 0.5 mi
- Guinness Storehouse: 0.6 mi
- Asian lion: 0.6 mi
- Festival in the Rain: 0.2 mi
- Fight or Flight: 0.3 mi
- Giant Tap: 0.3 mi
- Roam Free: 0.3 mi
- Blaith, Blaith, Blaith: 0.3 mi
- Chapelizod Bypass: 0.3 mi
- Wellington Monument: 0.4 mi
- Executions of the leaders of the 1916 rising: 0.4 mi
- Ludwig Wittgenstein: 0.5 mi
- Sean Heuston: 0.5 mi
- James's Walk: 0.5 mi
- Thor Park: 0.7 mi
- Halliday Square: 0.7 mi
- Billy Edwards Park: 0.7 mi
- Irish National War Memorial Gardens: 0.7 mi
- St Catherine's Well: 2.5 mi
- Saint John's Well: 2.8 mi
- Saint Broc's Well: 3.3 mi
- Rag Well: 3.6 mi
- Saint Brigid's Well: 4.4 mi
- Telshaun Hill: 6.1 mi
- Montpelier Hill: 6.5 mi
- Kilmashogue: 6.6 mi
- Slieve Gorra: 6.6 mi
- Three Rock Mountain: 7.2 mi
- Kilmainham Jail Museum: 0.4 mi
- Collins Barracks: 0.6 mi
- Asgard: 0.6 mi
- National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks: 0.6 mi
- The Riding School: 0.6 mi
- Sandymount Strand: 3.7 mi
- Sandymount Strand: 3.9 mi
- Merrion Strand: 4.4 mi
- Dollymount Strand: 6.5 mi
- Seapoint: 6.7 mi
- The Grove: 2.6 mi
- Booterstown Nature Reserve: 4.7 mi
- Booterstown Marsh: 4.8 mi
- Booterstown Marsh: 5.1 mi
- Wildflower Meadow: 5.2 mi
- Hawk Cliff: 9.8 mi
- Hawk Cliff: 9.9 mi
- Lover's Leap: 12.6 mi
- The Shaft: 14.5 mi
- Streaky Slab: 14.6 mi
- Toni's: 0.6 mi
- Hawk Cliff: 9.8 mi
- Rathbeggan Lakes Angling Centre: 12.1 mi
- Picnic Area: 13.7 mi
- Poplar Square: 17.2 mi
- Leixlip Spa Waterfall: 8.7 mi
- Powerscourt Waterfall: 14.2 mi
- Glenmacnass Waterfall: 19.4 mi
- Poulaphuca Waterfall: 19.6 mi
- Devil's Glen Waterfall: 22.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.8 miles of The Formal Garden at The Royal Hospital Kilmainham. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kippure | S 186° | 757 m | 11.6 mi |
| Seefingan | SSW 196° | 722.9 m | 10.9 mi |
| War Hill | S 172° | 684.8 m | 14.2 mi |
| Seahan | SSW 201° | 647.3 m | 9.4 mi |
| Tonduff | S 174° | 642 m | 12.7 mi |
| Seefin | SSW 200° | 620.6 m | 11.6 mi |
| Corrig Mountain | SSW 197° | 617.1 m | 9.4 mi |
| Sorrel Hill | SSW 204° | 599.5 m | 14.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:29 | 17:52 | 18:38 |
| June solstice | 04:58 | 21:00 | 21:58 |
| September equinox | 07:11 | 18:41 | 19:26 |
| December solstice | 08:39 | 15:01 | 16:09 |
Local time (Europe/Dublin).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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