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Saint Helen's Well

Saint Helen's Well, seen from above at true elevation

Saint Helen's Well is a spring, at a modelled elevation of 3 m. Carrickbyrne Hill stands 286 m to the west-northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Windmill, a historic site 0.8 miles away. 20 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates52.22830, -6.32603

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
  • Windmill: 0.8 mi
  • Greenore Watch House: 0.9 mi
  • Greenore Point Signal Staff: 1.0 mi
  • Hilltown House: 1.2 mi
  • Tuskar Rock Air Disaster: 1.4 mi
Artworks: 42
Beaches: 24
Peaks: 20
  • Shernock Hill/Knocks Hill: 1.7 mi
  • The Chour / The Hill of the Chour: 4.2 mi
  • Carrickadee: 11.7 mi
  • Skeater Rock: 11.7 mi
  • Forth Mountain: 11.7 mi
Attractions: 18
Gardens: 12
Parks: 11
  • Memorial Park: 1.5 mi
  • The Rocks: 8.8 mi
  • Republican Garden of Rememberance: 9.9 mi
  • Redmond Memorial Park: 10.0 mi
  • The Irish National Heritage Park: 11.5 mi
Museums: 6
Nature reserves: 1
  • The Cahore Polders and Dunes: 21.8 mi
Cliffs: 1
  • Carricjmore Cliff: 24.7 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Saint Helen's Well. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Carrickbyrne HillWNW 297°286.1 m21.6 mi
Forth MountainWNW 301°237 m11.7 mi
Camaross HillNW 304°183 m19.0 mi
Oulart HillN 351°180 m20.1 mi
Carrickmastia HillNW 306°166 m22.0 mi
Bree HillNW 319°155 m19.4 mi
Raheennahoon HillNW 313°154 m19.1 mi
Vinegar HillNNW 333°110 m21.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:2917:5318:38
June solstice05:0420:5621:51
September equinox07:1218:4219:26
December solstice08:3315:1116:15

Local time (Europe/Dublin).

  • Speckled Wood7 obs
  • Red Admiral5 obs
  • Black-headed Gull5 obs
  • European Peacock Butterfly4 obs
  • Eurasian Oystercatcher3 obs
  • Grey Heron3 obs
  • Common Blue3 obs
  • Ruddy Turnstone2 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/3008903848

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