Garden · Ireland
Formal Gardens
Formal Gardens is a garden, at a modelled elevation of 13 m. Kippure stands 757 m to the south, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is The Formal Garden at The Royal Hospital Kilmainham, a attraction less than a tenth of a mile away.
What to expect
- Access
- Yes
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
Coordinates53.34424, -6.30029
Named places within 25 miles
Attractions
- The Formal Garden at The Royal Hospital Kilmainham: 0.0 mi
- Royal Hospital Kilmainham: 0.1 mi
- Kilmainham Gaol: 0.4 mi
- Pearse Lyons: 0.5 mi
- Guinness Storehouse: 0.6 mi
Artworks
- Festival in the Rain: 0.2 mi
- Fight or Flight: 0.3 mi
- Giant Tap: 0.3 mi
- Blaith, Blaith, Blaith: 0.3 mi
- Flora in the Phoenix Park: 0.3 mi
Historic sites
- 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
Gardens
- 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
- Community garden: 1.3 mi
Parks
- 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: 0.8 mi
Springs
- St Catherine's Well: 2.4 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
Peaks
- 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
Museums: 56
- Kilmainham Jail Museum: 0.4 mi
- Collins Barracks: 0.5 mi
- Asgard: 0.6 mi
- National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks: 0.6 mi
- The Riding School: 0.6 mi
Beaches: 29
- Sandymount Strand: 3.7 mi
- Sandymount Strand: 3.9 mi
- Merrion Strand: 4.4 mi
- Dollymount Strand: 6.5 mi
- Seapoint: 6.7 mi
Nature reserves: 21
- 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
Cliffs: 12
- Hawk Cliff: 9.8 mi
- Hawk Cliff: 9.8 mi
- Lover's Leap: 12.6 mi
- The Shaft: 14.5 mi
- Streaky Slab: 14.6 mi
Picnic sites: 9
- 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
Waterfalls: 8
- 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 Formal Gardens. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kippure | S 187° | 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).
- European Herring Gull1,096 obs
- Eurasian Magpie676 obs
- Common Moorhen548 obs
- Mallard484 obs
- Grey Heron466 obs
- Tufted Duck422 obs
- Mute Swan394 obs
- Rock Pigeon376 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
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