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St Bridget's Well

St Bridget's Well, seen from above at true elevation

St Bridget's Well is a spring, at a modelled elevation of 61 m. Cappaghabaun Mountain stands 395 m to the southwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is New Gate, a historic site 2.2 miles away. 37 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates53.20266, -8.25884

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
  • New Gate: 2.2 mi
  • Kilquain Church (ruins): 2.3 mi
  • Longford Castle (ruins): 4.4 mi
  • Dún an Ochta: 5.1 mi
  • Church (ruins): 5.1 mi
Springs
Peaks: 37
  • Redmond Hill: 5.0 mi
  • Church Hill: 5.9 mi
  • Urraghry Hill: 6.9 mi
  • Sugarloaf Hill: 9.2 mi
  • Split Hill: 9.8 mi
Artworks: 37
  • Hope: 11.3 mi
  • Tired Pilgrim: 14.1 mi
  • William Third Earl of Rosse: 16.3 mi
  • Bust of Count John McCormack: 20.1 mi
  • River Shannon: 20.2 mi
Parks: 27
  • Aughrim Park: 7.4 mi
  • The Long Point: 12.6 mi
  • The Walks: 12.8 mi
  • Noggus Bog: 17.9 mi
  • Ferbane Bog Boardwalk: 18.5 mi
Attractions: 18
  • The bloody Hollow: 6.6 mi
  • Portumna Castle and Gardens: 8.1 mi
  • Clonfert Cathedral: 8.7 mi
  • Dartfield Horse Museum: 9.2 mi
  • Shannonbridge Fort: 10.0 mi
Museums: 12
Gardens: 11
Beaches: 1
  • White Sands: 21.5 mi
Nature reserves: 1
  • Blessed Well: 21.6 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Cappaghabaun MountainSW 214°395 m19.8 mi
ScalpSSW 214°380 m17.3 mi
Cappaghabaun Mountain EastSSW 211°378 m17.9 mi
Corbally HillS 189°365 m24.3 mi
Turkenagh MountainSW 217°360 m18.7 mi
CashlaundrumlahanWSW 243°358 m16.7 mi
KnocknamanESE 109°337 m24.7 mi
Laghtea HillSSW 194°325 m24.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:3718:0018:46
June solstice05:0621:0722:05
September equinox07:1918:4819:34
December solstice08:4615:1016:17

Local time (Europe/Dublin).

  • Rook3 obs
  • Red Clover3 obs
  • Mallard2 obs
  • European Common Frog2 obs
  • fireweed2 obs
  • Atlantic Puffin1 obs
  • European Goldfinch1 obs
  • European Robin1 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/13732327393

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