Benbradagh
Benbradagh rises to 465 m. Sawel stands 678 m to the southwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Boviel, a peak 1.6 miles away. Causeway Coastal Route passes 8.2 miles off.
The story
Benbradagh (from Irish Binn Bhradach 'treacherous peak') is a large hill near Dungiven in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It rises to 465 metres (1,526 ft) and is north of the Sperrin Mountains. Benbradagh was used from the 1940s to the early 1970s as a United States Military communications base for its North Atlantic fleet. US forces also built underground stores for high explosives at Benbradagh. In the early 1980s, Col Buckley, of the Directorate of Military Intelligence (Ireland), believed the UK could use the facility to store nuclear weapons. Col Buckley complained that he did not have "the monitoring or surveillance systems" to confirm whether nuclear weapons were being kept there, but the British strongly denied having nuclear weapons in Northern Ireland.
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Wikidata Q3776754, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 465 m
How to reach it
- 8.2 mi off the Causeway Coastal Route
- 17.5 mi off the Wild Atlantic Way, National
Overlooks nearby
- Gortmore View Point · 14 mi
- viewpoint on Beach · 15 mi
- Harbour Hill · 18 mi
- Rinagree Point · 19 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Boviel: 1.6 mi
- Carn Hill: 2.8 mi
- Donald's Hill: 3.9 mi
- Craigmore: 4.1 mi
- Teeavan Hill: 4.3 mi
- Dungiven Castle: 2.3 mi
- Dungiven Priory: 2.7 mi
- Bovevagh Church: 3.8 mi
- Errigal Old Church: 5.9 mi
- Beetling Mill: 6.1 mi
- Glenullin GAC Pitch: 5.5 mi
- Roemill Recreation Grounds: 7.5 mi
- Backburn Path: 7.8 mi
- Cornerstone Park: 7.9 mi
- Tirkane Sweat House: 8.5 mi
- Fungi Ring: 13.3 mi
- Birds in Flight: 13.5 mi
- The Ancient: 13.9 mi
- Manannán mac Lir: 14.1 mi
- Source: 14.3 mi
- Sperrins landscape: 13.1 mi
- Hezlett House: 14.9 mi
- Downhill beach: 15.5 mi
- Burning of the Seven Gods: 15.6 mi
- Ebrington Parade Grounds: 17.7 mi
- Green Lane Museum: 6.1 mi
- Garvagh Museum: 7.8 mi
- Limavady Museum: 8.1 mi
- Beetling Mill: 10.3 mi
- Coleraine Museum: 15.2 mi
- Castle Leisure Park: 2.4 mi
- Sensory Garden: 7.3 mi
- Largantogher Plantin Walled Garden: 10.8 mi
- Walled Garden: 12.0 mi
- Centennial Garden: 15.0 mi
- Source Of The Knockoneill River: 5.5 mi
- Skelp Well: 6.0 mi
- St Lowry's Well: 6.9 mi
- Source Of The Roohan Burn: 7.8 mi
- Official Start Of The Clady River: 12.1 mi
- Cashel: 2.5 mi
- Beagh Bridge Picnic Area: 8.8 mi
- Craigadick Picnic Area: 10.7 mi
- Ballyhacket View: 13.2 mi
- Quilley Picnic Area: 14.5 mi
- Castlerock Beach: 15.9 mi
- Portstewart Strand: 16.3 mi
- Sweet Nellie's: 18.9 mi
- White Strand: 19.1 mi
- East Strand: 20.4 mi
- Altkeeran Waterfall: 6.6 mi
- Grillagh Waterfall: 9.5 mi
- The 7 Arches Mousetrap Bridge Weir: 9.7 mi
- Ness Waterfall Highest Waterfall In Northern Ireland: 12.1 mi
- Dungeon Waterfall: 14.7 mi
- Goles Forest: 11.4 mi
- Garry Bog Nature Reserve: 17.6 mi
- Lissanduff Earthworks: 23.1 mi
- Legananam Pot: 1.9 mi
- Craig-na-Shoke: 7.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.1 miles of Benbradagh. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sawel | SW 217° | 678 m | 10.8 mi |
| Mullaghclogha | SW 227° | 635 m | 14.1 mi |
| Mullaghaneany | SSW 197° | 627 m | 8.2 mi |
| Meenard Mtn | SSW 202° | 620 m | 8.5 mi |
| Dart Mountain | SW 219° | 619 m | 11.9 mi |
| Oughtmore | S 190° | 569 m | 8.7 mi |
| Spelhoagh | S 187° | 568 m | 8.4 mi |
| Mullaghdoo | SW 227° | 568 m | 13.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:31 | 17:53 | 18:40 |
| June solstice | 04:49 | 21:09 | 22:11 |
| September equinox | 07:13 | 18:41 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 08:51 | 14:47 | 16:02 |
Local time (Europe/London).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/332373069
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