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Priest Boyle's Well

Priest Boyle's Well, seen from above at true elevation

Priest Boyle's Well is a spring, at a modelled elevation of 5 m. Sliabh Tuaidh stands 511 m to the southwest, 8.1 miles off. The nearest named place is St. Connell's Well, a spring less than a tenth of a mile away. Wild Atlantic Way passes 1.3 miles off.

How to reach it

Coordinates54.84909, -8.45247

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
  • Cashel Hill: 1.0 mi
  • Meendooish Hill: 1.9 mi
  • Cashelgolan Hill: 1.9 mi
  • Lefrin Hill: 2.1 mi
  • Crockastolar: 2.7 mi
Historic sites: 24
  • Castle: 2.8 mi
  • Dawros Head Signal Tower: 4.6 mi
  • Crohy Tower: 5.0 mi
  • John Doherty: 6.2 mi
  • The Sydney: 12.2 mi
Springs: 14
Beaches: 14
  • Naran Strand: 0.5 mi
  • Maghera Strand: 6.4 mi
  • An Trá Dhearg: 9.3 mi
  • Near beach: 9.6 mi
  • Shipwreck beach: 9.8 mi
Attractions: 7
  • Kilclooney More II: 2.3 mi
  • Maghera Waterfall: 6.7 mi
  • Dunlewey Centre: 17.2 mi
  • Salthill Gardens: 17.8 mi
  • An Trá Bhán: 18.2 mi
Cliffs: 5
  • Crohy Head Sea Arch: 4.6 mi
  • Narrow Zawn: 16.9 mi
  • Main Wall: 16.9 mi
  • Inland Crag: 17.1 mi
  • Maumlack Corrie Headwall: 19.4 mi
Museums: 4
Parks: 4
  • Parc O Ceallaigh: 14.5 mi
  • Eamonn Byrne Memorial Park: 14.6 mi
  • Killybegs Childrens Park: 14.7 mi
  • Coolmore Park: 23.2 mi
Waterfalls: 3
  • Maghera Waterfall: 6.8 mi
  • Crolly Waterfall: 12.9 mi
  • Astelleen Burn Waterfall: 21.0 mi
Artworks: 3
Gardens: 2

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.1 miles of Priest Boyle's Well. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Sliabh TuaidhSW 218°511 m8.1 mi
Common MountainS 180°499.7 m8.9 mi
Slievetooey West TopSW 223°472 m8.2 mi
Sliabh Tuaidh (mullach i gcéin thiar)SW 229°460 m9.5 mi
Cnoc OnnaSSW 213°400 m9.1 mi
Cnoc Ghleann GheisS 184°390 m7.2 mi
Cruach an BheitheS 190°372 m8.3 mi
Cró BheitheNE 46°368.9 m10.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:3817:5918:47
June solstice04:5621:1522:16
September equinox07:2018:4819:35
December solstice08:5714:5516:08

Local time (Europe/Dublin).

  • Compass Jelly11 obs
  • Sea Potato4 obs
  • Eurasian Linnet4 obs
  • Eurasian Oystercatcher2 obs
  • European Robin2 obs
  • European Green Crab2 obs
  • ragwort2 obs
  • Lion's Mane Jelly2 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/13765325188

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