Heron Garden
Heron Garden is a garden, at a modelled elevation of 38 m. Hungry Hill stands 682 m to the northwest, 9.1 miles off. The nearest named place is Air India Flight 182 Crash Memorial, a historic site 0.4 miles away. Wild Atlantic Way passes 0.3 miles off.
What to expect
- Access
- Customers only
How to reach it
- 0.3 mi off the Wild Atlantic Way, National
- 17.6 mi off the Ring of Kerry
Overlooks nearby
- Finn McCool's Seat · 4 mi
- Seefin · 4 mi
- Altar · 6 mi
- Sailor's Hill · 7 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Air India Flight 182 Crash Memorial: 0.4 mi
- Tom Whitty memorial: 0.8 mi
- Atha Tomais: 0.8 mi
- Nora Dalton: 3.5 mi
- Kilcrohane Fort: 3.8 mi
- Ahakista Strand (Kitchen Cove): 0.4 mi
- Trá na hAidhleann: 6.4 mi
- Trawnablaha: 9.8 mi
- Trawnablaha: 9.8 mi
- An Tráighín Álainn: 10.0 mi
- Gouladane: 1.3 mi
- Rosskerrig Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Knockaughna: 2.6 mi
- Seefin: 3.0 mi
- Mount Corrin: 4.4 mi
- Stone Row: 3.1 mi
- two standing stones: 3.6 mi
- Durrus Cheese: 5.2 mi
- Cadogan's Strand: 6.4 mi
- West Cork Sailing & Powerboating Centre: 6.7 mi
- Well of the poets: 2.4 mi
- Lady's Well: 7.5 mi
- Toberulla: 10.4 mi
- Tobar Chuas an Uisce: 10.4 mi
- Saint Bartholomew's Well: 12.6 mi
- Droppa: 11.6 mi
- Faill a' Tónacáin: 17.3 mi
- Caoinkeen: 17.6 mi
- Faill Chú: 18.6 mi
- Faill a' chipín: 19.0 mi
- Captain O'Neill Statue: 10.6 mi
- The Druid: 14.0 mi
- Canon James Goodman: 15.9 mi
- Brushwood Gallery: 18.7 mi
- Nest of Lace: 18.8 mi
- Bryce House: 10.0 mi
- Coomhola Salmon Trust (Streamscapes): 12.5 mi
- Cape Clear Museum: 12.6 mi
- Molly Gallivan's Cottage & Traditional Farm: 14.0 mi
- Heritage Centre: 15.7 mi
- Snave Pier Picnic Tables: 11.6 mi
- Rossa Park: 15.7 mi
- The Rock: 16.1 mi
- Coolngrane Park: 16.4 mi
- Reenagross Park: 19.1 mi
- Walled Garden: 8.5 mi
- Walled Garden: 9.9 mi
- The Ewe Experience: 12.3 mi
- Derreen Gardens: 13.2 mi
- Inishbeg Gardens: 13.4 mi
- Mare's Tail Waterfall: 8.7 mi
- Gleninchaquin Waterfall: 13.6 mi
- Dromanassig Waterfall: 18.0 mi
- Fall Down: 18.6 mi
- Glengarriff Nature Reserve: 10.9 mi
- Habitat of Derreenies: 13.3 mi
- Mucksna Nature Reserve: 18.4 mi
- Páirc Náisiúnta Stairiúil Dhoire Fhíonáin / Derrynane National Historic Park: 24.2 mi
- The Bridge: 10.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.5 miles of Heron Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hungry Hill | NW 310° | 682 m | 9.1 mi |
| Knockowen | NNW 336° | 658 m | 10.3 mi |
| Lackabane | NW 317° | 603 m | 11.3 mi |
| Cushnaficulla | NNW 341° | 594 m | 10.3 mi |
| Knocknagree | NW 305° | 586 m | 11.1 mi |
| Caha SE Top | N 354° | 585 m | 11.2 mi |
| Knockeirky | NNW 344° | 577 m | 10.0 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | N 360° | 574 m | 8.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:43 | 18:07 | 18:51 |
| June solstice | 05:21 | 21:06 | 22:01 |
| September equinox | 07:25 | 18:55 | 19:39 |
| December solstice | 08:43 | 15:30 | 16:32 |
Local time (Europe/Dublin).
- Ring-necked Pheasant13 obs
- Common Chaffinch12 obs
- European Common Frog10 obs
- Red Fox10 obs
- European Peacock Butterfly10 obs
- Small Tortoiseshell9 obs
- Eurasian Oystercatcher8 obs
- Barn Swallow8 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.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/5620730318
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