Father Flynn's garden
Father Flynn's garden is a garden, at a modelled elevation of 117 m. Keeper Hill stands 692 m to the west, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Toberlahan, a spring 0.2 miles away.
Small public green area dedicated to the late Fr. Patrick Flynn, former parish priest of Drom & Inch (1988-2007), who helped to develop the garden and who lived in the nearby Parochial House
What to expect
- Access
- Yes
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Toberlahan: 0.2 mi
- Lady's Well: 4.3 mi
- Toberacooleen: 4.3 mi
- Saint James's Well: 4.7 mi
- Killanna Well: 4.7 mi
- Knocka Castle: 1.3 mi
- Cloghanerma Castle: 1.7 mi
- Loughmoe Court: 3.1 mi
- Brownstown Castle: 4.9 mi
- Cullahill Castle: 5.1 mi
- Devil's Bit Mountain: 3.6 mi
- Gortagarry: 3.7 mi
- Knockanora: 4.0 mi
- Kilduff Mountain: 4.6 mi
- Curraghbristy: 4.7 mi
- Thurles Town Park: 7.4 mi
- Hollyford Millennium Garden: 13.0 mi
- Thomas MacDonagh Memorial Garden: 13.3 mi
- Glebe Field: 13.4 mi
- The Walled Garden: 13.6 mi
- Black Castle: 7.1 mi
- Pheasant Island: 7.2 mi
- Holycross Abbey: 9.1 mi
- Roscrea Petty Sessions House: 13.4 mi
- Roscrea Round Tower: 13.5 mi
- Garden of Remembrance: 7.3 mi
- Kilcommon Prayer Garden: 11.7 mi
- RED Gardens: 13.5 mi
- Nenagh Castle Gardens: 14.2 mi
- Cuan Mhuire: 14.4 mi
- Lár na Páirce: 7.2 mi
- Famine & War Museum: 7.2 mi
- St. Mary's Famine and War Museum: 7.3 mi
- Cormackstown Heritage Centre: 7.5 mi
- Thomas MacDonagh Heritage Centre: 13.4 mi
- Marian Year statue: 3.3 mi
- Mr Tayto: 8.2 mi
- Barack and Michelle Obama sculpture: 8.2 mi
- Cairn: 13.2 mi
- The Observation of Stars: 14.3 mi
- Knockanacree Woods Main Entrance and Picnic Site: 14.1 mi
- Lacca: 22.8 mi
- Blessed Well: 19.0 mi
- The Pollagh Trail: 23.0 mi
- Ballykeefe Quarry: 23.6 mi
- Ballykeefe Quarry: 23.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.3 miles of Father Flynn's garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Keeper Hill | W 265° | 691.6 m | 15.3 mi |
| Mauherslieve | WSW 251° | 543 m | 12.9 mi |
| Devil's Bit Mountain | NNW 349° | 480 m | 3.6 mi |
| Silvermine Mountains E Top | W 272° | 479 m | 14.7 mi |
| Cooneen Hill | W 268° | 467 m | 10.3 mi |
| Gortagarry | NW 320° | 458 m | 3.7 mi |
| Tooreen | SW 232° | 457 m | 12.6 mi |
| Benduff | N 350° | 455 m | 6.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:36 | 17:59 | 18:44 |
| June solstice | 05:08 | 21:04 | 22:01 |
| September equinox | 07:18 | 18:47 | 19:33 |
| December solstice | 08:42 | 15:13 | 16:18 |
Local time (Europe/Dublin).
- Fourteen-spotted Lady Beetle1 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.
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