Spring · Ireland
Nun's Well
Nun's Well is a spring, at a modelled elevation of 69 m. Kippure stands 757 m to the south-southeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Carton Demense, a attraction 0.6 miles away.
How to reach it
Coordinates53.39398, -6.54990
Named places within 25 miles
Attractions
- Carton Demense: 0.6 mi
- Hanwood Gardens: 1.9 mi
- The Sun Clock: 2.1 mi
- Library Cat: 2.2 mi
- College Chapel: 2.2 mi
Parks
- The Formal Garden: 0.7 mi
- Pound Park: 1.9 mi
- Saint Mary's Square: 2.2 mi
- Riverforest Bowl: 2.7 mi
- Castletown Demesne: 3.1 mi
Historic sites
- Salestown Castle (in ruins): 0.7 mi
- Sun clock: 0.7 mi
- Hermes: 0.7 mi
- Moygaddy Tower House: 1.3 mi
- Conolly's Folly: 1.7 mi
Springs
- Bride's Well: 0.9 mi
- Leixlip Spa - Spring: 2.4 mi
- The Covered Well: 3.0 mi
- St. Catherine's Well: 3.7 mi
- Saint Patrick's Well: 4.8 mi
Peaks
- Ash Hill: 1.4 mi
- Saint Patrick's Hill: 5.0 mi
- Mullagh: 5.6 mi
- Lyons Hill: 7.2 mi
- Athgoe Hill: 7.5 mi
Artworks
- Dance: 2.2 mi
- Up Up and Away: 4.0 mi
- Strawberry Yields Forever: 4.9 mi
- Diversity: 5.1 mi
- After the Storm: 5.1 mi
Gardens
- Junior Garden: 2.2 mi
- Scoil Mochua Gardens: 3.1 mi
- The Walled Garden: 3.4 mi
- Mrs Behan's Garden: 4.5 mi
- Lodge Park Walled Garden: 6.0 mi
Museums: 59
- National Science Museum: 2.3 mi
- Berkeley Costume and Toy Collection: 3.2 mi
- The Steam Musem: 6.0 mi
- Richmond Barracks: 10.4 mi
- Kilmainham Jail Museum: 10.6 mi
Beaches: 25
- Sandymount Strand: 14.5 mi
- Sandymount Strand: 14.8 mi
- Merrion Strand: 15.2 mi
- Dollymount Strand: 16.8 mi
- Seapoint: 17.5 mi
Nature reserves: 20
- Ballynafagh Bog Special Area of Conservation: 11.8 mi
- The Grove: 13.4 mi
- Wildflower Meadow: 14.4 mi
- Booterstown Nature Reserve: 15.5 mi
- Booterstown Marsh: 15.6 mi
Cliffs: 11
- Hawk Cliff: 20.5 mi
- Hawk Cliff: 20.6 mi
- Lover's Leap: 21.9 mi
- Ben Head: 22.5 mi
- The Shaft: 24.4 mi
Picnic sites: 9
- Rathbeggan Lakes Angling Centre: 5.4 mi
- Toni's: 10.4 mi
- Poplar Square: 12.9 mi
- Picnic Area: 13.5 mi
- Picnic Area: 13.8 mi
Waterfalls: 4
- Leixlip Spa Waterfall: 2.3 mi
- Poulaphuca Waterfall: 19.1 mi
- Powerscourt Waterfall: 22.1 mi
- Glenmacnass Waterfall: 24.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.3 miles of Nun's Well. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kippure | SSE 149° | 757 m | 17.4 mi |
| Seefingan | SSE 152° | 722.9 m | 15.7 mi |
| Seahan | SSE 150° | 647.3 m | 14.1 mi |
| Seefin | SSE 156° | 620.6 m | 15.7 mi |
| Corrig Mountain | SSE 149° | 617.1 m | 14.5 mi |
| Black Hill | SSE 167° | 602.2 m | 19.3 mi |
| Sorrel Hill | SSE 165° | 599.5 m | 17.6 mi |
| Glendoo Mountain | SE 138° | 585.094 m | 16.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:30 | 17:53 | 18:39 |
| June solstice | 04:58 | 21:01 | 21:59 |
| September equinox | 07:12 | 18:42 | 19:27 |
| December solstice | 08:40 | 15:02 | 16:10 |
Local time (Europe/Dublin).
- hogweed18 obs
- Red Clover12 obs
- white clover12 obs
- White Wagtail7 obs
- lesser stitchwort7 obs
- Meadow Crane's-bill6 obs
- Fairy Foxglove6 obs
- great stinging nettle5 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.
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