The Black Castle
Marked no entry. Do not count on getting in.
The Black Castle is a historic site, at a modelled elevation of 41 m. Mount Leinster stands 794 m to the southeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Garden of Remembrance, a park 0.1 miles away.
The story
Leighlinbridge Castle, also called Black Castle, is in the village of Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, Ireland, on the River Barrow. The early castle was built c.1181 for the Normans. In the 1540s a Carmelite friary was converted into a new fort by Edward Bellingham. The remains of the castle are now dilapidated - a 50-foot-tall (15 m) broken castle tower and parts of one side of an enclosing wall are still extant.
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Wikidata Q6519722, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Dolphins: 2.4 mi
- The Liberty Tree: 7.1 mi
- Ave Maria: 7.2 mi
- Sky Rivers “Homage to Tyndall”: 7.3 mi
- Ceatharloch: 8.0 mi
- Gallows Hill: 4.2 mi
- Castle Hill: 5.0 mi
- Clogrennan Hill: 5.5 mi
- Ballon Hill: 8.4 mi
- Jake's Hill: 8.5 mi
- St Patrick's Well: 0.7 mi
- Saint Molaises Well: 2.1 mi
- St. Bridget's Well: 2.2 mi
- Kellymount Holy Well: 4.7 mi
- Toberreagh: 5.0 mi
- Garden of Remembrance: 0.1 mi
- Sculpture Garden: 0.1 mi
- Vivaldi Garden: 0.2 mi
- Oak Grove Millennium Park: 2.5 mi
- The Fair Green: 2.5 mi
- Dunleckny Manor: 2.3 mi
- Agha Church (in ruins): 2.4 mi
- Clogrenan Castle (ruins): 5.1 mi
- Freneystown Castle: 6.8 mi
- Ashgrove: 7.0 mi
- Delta Sensory Gardens: 7.8 mi
- Gowran Abbey: 8.3 mi
- Castlecomer Discovery Park: 10.6 mi
- Duckett's Grove: 10.8 mi
- Altamont House and Gardens: 10.9 mi
- Carlow County Museum: 7.2 mi
- Goodly Barrow Museum: 7.3 mi
- Carlow Military Museum: 7.7 mi
- Footprints In Coal: 10.6 mi
- Tullow Museum: 11.0 mi
- New Oak Estate Memorial Garden: 7.2 mi
- An Gháirdín Beo: 7.5 mi
- Walled Garden: 8.7 mi
- Ballyfoyle Active Retirement Garden: 10.6 mi
- Duckett's Grove Walled Gardens: 10.9 mi
- Kilbrannish Forrest Picnic Site: 10.8 mi
- Castle View: 16.0 mi
- Newpark Marsh Park: 12.3 mi
- Thomastown Quarry: 15.6 mi
- Rock of Foyle: 10.0 mi
- Ballykeefe Quarry: 19.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.1 miles of The Black Castle. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Leinster | SE 134° | 794 m | 11.6 mi |
| Blackstairs Mountain | SSE 151° | 732 m | 14.8 mi |
| Moats of Craan | SE 130° | 657 m | 12.3 mi |
| Black Rock Mountain | SE 128° | 600 m | 13.3 mi |
| Knockroe | SE 142° | 539 m | 12.6 mi |
| Slievebawn | SE 134° | 525 m | 9.7 mi |
| Brandon Hill | S 179° | 515 m | 15.6 mi |
| White Mountain | SSE 160° | 509 m | 16.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:32 | 17:55 | 18:41 |
| June solstice | 05:04 | 21:00 | 21:57 |
| September equinox | 07:14 | 18:44 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 08:38 | 15:10 | 16:15 |
Local time (Europe/Dublin).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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