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Sensory Garden

Sensory Garden from directly overhead

Sensory Garden is a garden, at a modelled elevation of 23 m. Carrickbyrne Hill stands 286 m to the west-northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Memorial Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. 22 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What to expect

Access
Yes

How to reach it

Coordinates52.24924, -6.33730

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
  • Tuskar Rock Air Disaster: 0.2 mi
  • Windmill: 1.0 mi
  • Greenore Watch House: 1.1 mi
  • Greenore Point Signal Staff: 1.1 mi
  • Ballyconnor Castle: 1.4 mi
Artworks: 42
Beaches: 27
Peaks: 22
  • Shernock Hill/Knocks Hill: 2.9 mi
  • The Chour / The Hill of the Chour: 5.2 mi
  • Carrickadee: 10.6 mi
  • Forth Mountain: 10.6 mi
  • Skeater Rock: 10.7 mi
Attractions: 19
Parks: 11
  • Memorial Park: 0.0 mi
  • The Rocks: 7.4 mi
  • Republican Garden of Rememberance: 8.5 mi
  • Redmond Memorial Park: 8.6 mi
  • The Irish National Heritage Park: 10.2 mi
Gardens: 11
Museums: 7
Nature reserves: 1
  • The Cahore Polders and Dunes: 20.5 mi
Cliffs: 1
  • Carricjmore Cliff: 24.4 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Sensory Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Carrickbyrne HillWNW 294°286.1 m20.5 mi
Carrigroe HillN 355°284 m23.5 mi
Forth MountainWNW 296°237 m10.6 mi
Camaross HillWNW 301°183 m17.9 mi
Oulart HillN 352°180 m18.6 mi
Carrickmastia HillWNW 303°166 m20.8 mi
Boley HillN 359°163 m24.2 mi
Bree HillNW 317°155 m18.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:2917:5318:38
June solstice05:0420:5621:51
September equinox07:1218:4219:26
December solstice08:3315:1116:15

Local time (Europe/Dublin).

  • Speckled Wood7 obs
  • Red Admiral6 obs
  • Black-headed Gull5 obs
  • European Peacock Butterfly4 obs
  • Eurasian Oystercatcher3 obs
  • Common Blue3 obs
  • Red Valerian3 obs
  • Ruddy Turnstone2 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/1221496690

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