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Saint Patricks Well

Saint Patricks Well, seen from above at true elevation

Saint Patricks Well is a spring, at a modelled elevation of 13 m. Truskmore stands 647 m to the south, 6.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Peace Garden, a garden 3.0 miles away. Wild Atlantic Way runs past it.

How to reach it

Coordinates54.46383, -8.37569

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
  • Unbaptised Children Monument: 3.2 mi
  • Mullaghmore Signal Tower: 3.2 mi
  • Classiebawn Castle: 3.8 mi
  • Astoria Ballroom: 4.2 mi
  • Four Masters Bridge: 4.6 mi
Peaks
  • Tievebaun: 4.7 mi
  • Eagle's Rock: 5.5 mi
  • Benwiskin: 5.5 mi
  • Keeloges: 5.6 mi
  • Arroo Mountain: 5.7 mi
Springs: 37
Attractions: 24
  • Wishing Chair: 4.5 mi
  • Fairy Briges: 4.6 mi
  • Atlantic Sheepdogs: 8.5 mi
  • Grave of WB Yeats: 10.6 mi
  • Drumcliff Graveyard: 10.7 mi
Beaches: 16
  • Bundoran beach: 4.1 mi
  • Trawalua Strand: 4.2 mi
  • Wardtown Strand: 6.2 mi
  • Streedagh Beach: 8.4 mi
  • Murvagh Beach: 12.9 mi
Parks: 15
  • Coolmore Park: 8.8 mi
  • Killybegs Childrens Park: 12.2 mi
  • Eamonn Byrne Memorial Park: 12.8 mi
  • Parc O Ceallaigh: 12.9 mi
  • Salmon Point: 13.6 mi
Artworks: 15
Museums: 8
Waterfalls: 5
Picnic sites: 5
  • Fowley's Falls: 11.2 mi
  • Glenaniff Waterfall: 11.3 mi
  • Glenaniff Waterfall: 11.3 mi
  • Hazelwood: 14.4 mi
  • Templeboy Picnic Area: 23.4 mi
Gardens: 3
  • Peace Garden: 3.0 mi
  • The Cloister: 22.5 mi
  • Ireland's Best Garden: 24.3 mi
Cliffs: 2
  • Doneen West: 7.3 mi
  • Carrane Hill: 23.4 mi
Nature reserves: 2
  • RSPB Lower Lough Erne Islands: 15.9 mi
  • Moneen Boleybrack Mountain Special Area of Conservation: 22.4 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 14.7 miles of Saint Patricks Well. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
TruskmoreS 178°647 m6.2 mi
Truskmore SE CairnS 176°631 m6.4 mi
TievebaunS 171°611 m4.7 mi
Annacoona TopSSW 195°597 m7.0 mi
BenbulbinSSW 210°526 m7.9 mi
Arroo MountainSE 124°523 m5.7 mi
BenwiskinSSW 202°514 m5.5 mi
Benwiskin South TopSSW 201°508 m6.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:3717:5918:46
June solstice04:5921:1322:13
September equinox07:1918:4819:35
December solstice08:5414:5916:11

Local time (Europe/Dublin).

  • Common Redshank3 obs
  • Primrose3 obs
  • Common Scoter3 obs
  • Lined Top Shell3 obs
  • Ruddy Turnstone2 obs
  • Common Loon2 obs
  • Eurasian Oystercatcher2 obs
  • Mute Swan2 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/7400844955

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