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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 28 m. Knockmealdown stands 792 m to the northeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Aghern Castle, a historic site 0.6 miles away.

How to reach it

Coordinates52.08566, -8.16760

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
Springs
Peaks
  • Corrin Hill: 5.3 mi
  • Salt Hill: 5.6 mi
  • Devonshire's Hill: 6.5 mi
  • Knocknalough: 7.2 mi
  • Tallow Hill: 7.7 mi
Parks
  • Fermoy Townpark: 6.0 mi
  • Lismore Townpark: 10.6 mi
  • Canal View Park: 11.0 mi
  • Fair Green: 11.6 mi
  • Baby Walk: 12.0 mi
Artworks: 59
Attractions: 37
Gardens: 23
  • Kilshannig Stud: 5.0 mi
  • Ballyglissane House: 5.7 mi
  • Sandyhill Kitchen Garden: 8.0 mi
  • north walled garden: 10.4 mi
  • Lismore Castle Formal Garden: 10.6 mi
Beaches: 19
  • Ballybrassil Beach: 15.9 mi
  • Glenmore Strand: 16.0 mi
  • Cuskinny: 16.2 mi
  • Caliso Bay: 18.3 mi
  • Glenawilling Beach: 18.6 mi
Museums: 15
Picnic sites: 6
  • Life Space Park: 3.1 mi
  • Mocollop Picnic Site: 5.5 mi
  • Glansheskin Forest Recreation Area: 7.6 mi
  • Rostellen Woods picnic area: 16.6 mi
  • Clogheenmilcon Nature Reserve Killeens End: 18.8 mi
Nature reserves: 4
  • Cuskinny Marsh Bird Sanctuary: 16.1 mi
  • Kildanogue wildfowl sanctuary and nature reserve: 16.8 mi
  • Clogheenmilcon Sanctuary: 19.3 mi
  • Loughbeg Bird Reserve: 19.8 mi
Cliffs: 4
Waterfalls: 3
Rest areas: 2

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 17.8 miles of St Bridget's Well. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
KnockmealdownNE 47°792.4 m14.5 mi
KnockmoylanNE 46°767.1 m14.9 mi
KnocknafalliaNE 54°666.5 m15.9 mi
Sugarloaf HillNE 41°662.7 m14.6 mi
KnocknagnauvNE 51°655.1 m15.6 mi
KnockshanahullionNNE 32°653.3 m13.1 mi
KnocknaloughaNE 37°629 m13.6 mi
KnockmealNE 54°559.5 m16.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:3718:0118:45
June solstice05:1321:0221:58
September equinox07:1918:4919:34
December solstice08:4015:2016:23

Local time (Europe/Dublin).

  • European beech1 obs
  • maidenhair spleenwort1 obs
  • sycamore maple1 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/13746935876

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