Spring · Ireland
Saint James's Holy Well
Saint James's Holy Well is a spring, at a modelled elevation of 77 m. Mount Leinster stands 794 m to the north-northeast, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Saint Columb's Well, a spring 1.4 miles away.
How to reach it
Coordinates52.34756, -7.02562
Named places within 25 miles
Springs
- Saint Columb's Well: 1.4 mi
- Saint Cuan's Well: 1.6 mi
- Tobermurry: 1.6 mi
- Tobar an tsagairt: 2.1 mi
- St. Nicholas' Well: 2.9 mi
Attractions
- Kennedy Homestead: 1.9 mi
- Dunbrody Famine Ship Visitor Centre: 4.6 mi
- Dunbrody: 4.6 mi
- Dunbrody Abbey: 5.2 mi
- Dunbrody Abbey Visitor Centre: 5.4 mi
Historic sites
- New Ross Port Company River Barrow Improvement Scheme: 2.0 mi
- Turret: 2.3 mi
- Church (In Ruins): 2.7 mi
- Annaghs Castle: 3.1 mi
- Ballinlaw Castle: 3.2 mi
Peaks
- Partridge Hill: 2.5 mi
- Camlin Hill: 3.4 mi
- Slievecoiltia: 4.0 mi
- Tory Hill: 4.3 mi
- Minaun Hill: 5.8 mi
Artworks
- The Emigrant Flame: 4.6 mi
- Small Things Like These: 4.6 mi
- JFK Podium: 4.6 mi
- Thomas Francis Meagher: 6.9 mi
- SS Port Lairge propellor: 6.9 mi
Parks: 58
- New Ross Harbour Board Memorial Park: 2.0 mi
- Pearse Park: 4.4 mi
- Emigrant Park: 4.5 mi
- Library Park: 4.8 mi
- Dobbyn's Field: 5.5 mi
Beaches: 34
- Arthurstown Beach: 7.9 mi
- Raheen Strand: 9.5 mi
- Duncannon: 9.7 mi
- Dromina Strand: 10.0 mi
- Woodstown Strand: 10.6 mi
Gardens: 26
- Kilmokea Gardens: 3.8 mi
- Robert Emmet Memorial Garden: 4.4 mi
- High Hill Norman Garden: 4.8 mi
- Sensory Garden: 5.7 mi
- Top of the City Community Garden: 7.5 mi
Museums: 19
- John F. Kennedy Arboretum Museum: 4.3 mi
- Irish Museum of Time: 6.9 mi
- Irish Silver Museum: 6.9 mi
- Irish Wake Museum: 7.0 mi
- Medieval Museum: 7.0 mi
Nature reserves: 6
- Native Woodland Trust:Grace Dieu Reserve: 8.3 mi
- Fiddown Island: 12.4 mi
- Thomastown Quarry: 13.9 mi
- Fenor Bog: 15.1 mi
- Garden of Renewal: 23.3 mi
Cliffs: 5
- Carricjmore Cliff: 11.1 mi
- Mahon Valley: 23.5 mi
- Ballykeefe Quarry: 24.0 mi
- Ballykeefe Quarry: 24.0 mi
- Mahon Valley: 24.8 mi
Picnic sites: 3
- Picnic Area: 4.2 mi
- Castle View: 12.8 mi
- Kilbrannish Forrest Picnic Site: 24.2 mi
Waterfalls: 2
- Poulanassy Waterfall: 7.3 mi
- Mahon Falls: 23.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.7 miles of Saint James's Holy Well. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Leinster | NNE 29° | 794.4 m | 21.4 mi |
| Blackstairs Mountain | NNE 34° | 732.1 m | 16.7 mi |
| Knockroe | NNE 30° | 538.77 m | 19.6 mi |
| Brandon Hill | N 11° | 515 m | 11.4 mi |
| White Mountain | NE 35° | 509 m | 13.4 mi |
| Carrigroe | NE 34° | 495 m | 14.4 mi |
| Bran Poceagh | NE 35° | 489 m | 13.3 mi |
| Carrigalachan | NNE 32° | 463 m | 14.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:32 | 17:56 | 18:41 |
| June solstice | 05:07 | 20:59 | 21:55 |
| September equinox | 07:14 | 18:44 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 08:36 | 15:13 | 16:17 |
Local time (Europe/Dublin).
- Barn Swallow2 obs
- Mute Swan1 obs
- common puffball1 obs
- Common Snowberry1 obs
- Marmalade Hover Fly1 obs
- Lesser hop trefoil1 obs
- Small Tortoiseshell1 obs
- bittersweet nightshade1 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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