Spring
Mearing Well
Mearing Well is a spring, at a modelled elevation of 24 m. Slieve Donard stands 849 m to the southwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Toberasool, a spring 0.5 miles away. Causeway Coastal Route passes 24 miles off.
Believed to be the location where Patrick converted his first Christians and baptised them.
How to reach it
Coordinates54.34464, -5.68354
- 23.8 mi off the Causeway Coastal Route
Named places within 25 miles
Parks
- Quoile Steamboat Quay: 0.9 mi
- Roughal Park Recreation Area: 1.6 mi
- The Grove Recreation Area: 1.9 mi
- Delamont Country Park: 2.4 mi
- Tobar Mhuire Retreat & Conference Centre: 4.5 mi
Historic sites
- Steamboat Quay: 0.9 mi
- St Patrick's Statue: 1.3 mi
- Struell Wells: 1.4 mi
- St. Patrick's Grave: 2.0 mi
- Grave of Magnus Barefoot: 2.6 mi
Attractions
- Hoster Tully's Funeral Jetty: 0.9 mi
- St Patrick's Chair: 1.5 mi
- The King in the North: 2.0 mi
- Castle Ward House: 4.4 mi
- Winterfell Castle Courtyard: 4.6 mi
Artworks
- Girl from Mars: 1.7 mi
- Strangford Stone: 2.4 mi
- Hans Sloane: 4.0 mi
- On the Way to the Fair: 7.2 mi
- Tonn Ruray Sculptural Horn: 8.6 mi
Peaks
- Wallace Hill: 3.0 mi
- Carney Hill: 3.0 mi
- Stump Hill: 5.9 mi
- Edenarrif Mountain: 8.0 mi
- Dunmore Mountain: 8.8 mi
Gardens: 53
- Victorian Garden: 1.6 mi
- Sunken Garden: 4.4 mi
- Walled Garden: 4.6 mi
- Shrigley Community Garden: 4.6 mi
- Nutgrove Garden: 5.2 mi
Cliffs: 46
- Spinkanee: 11.3 mi
- Nerwcastle Beach Bouldering: 12.8 mi
- Eagle Rock: 14.5 mi
- The Castles: 15.2 mi
- Annalong Buttress: 15.6 mi
Museums: 26
- Down County Museum: 1.8 mi
- St. Patricks Visitor Centre: 1.9 mi
- Carriage Gallery: 2.1 mi
- Ards Arts Centre: 17.2 mi
- War Years Remembered: 17.6 mi
Picnic sites: 21
- Inch Abbey Station Picnic Area: 2.1 mi
- Cuan Beach: 3.7 mi
- Strangford Holiday Park Picnic Area: 5.5 mi
- Kilclief Recreation/Picnic Area: 5.6 mi
- Ballyhornan Picnic Site: 6.0 mi
Nature reserves: 19
- Quoile Pondage Basin nature reserve: 1.0 mi
- Hollymount Forest nature reserve: 3.2 mi
- Cloughy Rocks nature reserve: 5.5 mi
- Killard National Nature Reserve: 6.4 mi
- Bohill Nature Reserve: 6.8 mi
Springs: 9
- Toberasool: 0.5 mi
- St. Patrick's Wells: 1.4 mi
- St. Patrick's Wells: 1.4 mi
- St. Anne's Well: 3.8 mi
- Sunday Well: 4.3 mi
Beaches: 9
- Kilclief Beach: 5.7 mi
- Mill Quarter Beach: 6.0 mi
- Rossglass Beach: 6.5 mi
- Gilpin Harbour: 6.5 mi
- Tyrella Beach: 6.8 mi
Waterfalls: 3
- Black Stairs: 13.9 mi
- Lisnabreeney Waterfall: 17.4 mi
- Stepping Stones: 19.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 16.1 miles of Mearing Well. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slieve Donard | SW 220° | 849 m | 14.9 mi |
| Slieve Commedagh | SW 224° | 767 m | 14.9 mi |
| Chimney Rock Mtn | SW 216° | 656 m | 15.6 mi |
| Cove Mtn | SW 223° | 654.8 m | 16.0 mi |
| Slieve Corragh | SW 225° | 641.9 m | 15.3 mi |
| Slieve Beg | SW 223° | 595.9 m | 15.6 mi |
| Slievenaglogh | SW 228° | 584.4 m | 15.5 mi |
| Slievenaglogh East Top | SW 227° | 571 m | 15.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:27 | 17:49 | 18:36 |
| June solstice | 04:49 | 21:02 | 22:02 |
| September equinox | 07:09 | 18:37 | 19:24 |
| December solstice | 08:42 | 14:49 | 16:01 |
Local time (Europe/London).
Where this comes from
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