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Famine Garden

Famine Garden from directly overhead

Famine Garden is a garden, at a modelled elevation of 127 m. Moylussa stands 532 m to the south-southeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Raeglas, a park 0.3 miles away. Wild Atlantic Way passes 14 miles off.

What the record says

Inscription
famine potato garden

How to reach it

Coordinates53.03535, -8.64578

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
  • Kinnageeragh: 1.8 mi
  • Knocknarebana: 2.4 mi
  • Pollduff: 2.4 mi
  • Knocknamona: 3.0 mi
  • Cashlaundrumlahan: 4.1 mi
Historic sites
Springs
  • Tobergrania Holy Well: 6.4 mi
  • Spring Well: 7.4 mi
  • Pollduagh: 7.7 mi
  • Polldeelin: 8.5 mi
  • St Dima's Well: 9.7 mi
Parks: 59
  • Raeglas: 0.3 mi
  • Deer Park: 6.4 mi
  • Canon Quinn Park: 7.5 mi
  • Kiltartan Millennium Park: 8.3 mi
  • Tuamgraney Garden of Remembrance: 10.4 mi
Attractions: 55
Artworks: 28
Museums: 13
Gardens: 11
Beaches: 9
Nature reserves: 3
  • Blessed Well: 17.3 mi
  • Post Office Field: 19.4 mi
  • The Pollagh Trail: 20.1 mi
Cliffs: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 23.7 miles of Famine Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
MoylussaSSE 160°531.6 m14.9 mi
CragnamurraghSSE 165°526 m15.1 mi
TountinnaSE 141°457 m16.8 mi
Glennagalliagh MountainSSE 164°446 m15.8 mi
Ballykildea MountainSSE 159°412 m16.4 mi
MagheraSSW 213°400 m5.5 mi
Cappaghabaun MountainSE 134°395 m6.9 mi
ScalpESE 113°380 m7.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:3918:0218:47
June solstice05:0921:0822:05
September equinox07:2118:5019:36
December solstice08:4715:1416:20

Local time (Europe/Dublin).

  • round-leaved sundew2 obs
  • Common Lousewort2 obs
  • Jelly Ear1 obs
  • purple foxglove1 obs
  • European Nursery Web spider1 obs
  • scentless mayweed1 obs
  • Lesser Bladderwort1 obs
  • bog asphodel1 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1104784172

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