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St. Brigid's Well

St. Brigid's Well, seen from above at true elevation

St. Brigid's Well is a spring, at a modelled elevation of 83 m. Clomantagh Hill stands 349 m to the west-southwest, 7.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Ballyragget Castle, a historic site 1.2 miles away.

How to reach it

Coordinates52.79034, -7.36327

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
Peaks
  • Nale's Hill: 2.0 mi
  • Knockmannon Hill: 3.2 mi
  • Ballynalacken Hill: 3.9 mi
  • Ballylehaun Hill: 5.7 mi
  • Kyle Hill: 6.6 mi
Artworks
Parks: 56
  • Fair Green: 1.2 mi
  • Mill Road Amenity Area: 4.1 mi
  • Millenium Park: 4.2 mi
  • Millenium Park: 4.8 mi
  • Parkanahown: 5.1 mi
Attractions: 37
Gardens: 28
  • Uppercourt Demesne Walled Garden: 5.0 mi
  • Ballyfoyle Active Retirement Garden: 7.3 mi
  • The King's Garden: 7.5 mi
  • Kitchen Garden: 7.6 mi
  • Abbeyleix Community Garden: 8.6 mi
Museums: 23
  • Irish Fly Fishing and Game Shooting Museum: 3.1 mi
  • Ionad Lachtain: 4.2 mi
  • Footprints In Coal: 6.8 mi
  • Abbeyleix Heritage Centre: 8.8 mi
  • Stephens Barracks Museum: 10.2 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Lacca: 18.8 mi
  • Castle View: 21.0 mi
  • Emo Court picnic area: 23.0 mi
Waterfalls: 2
  • Rock of Foyle: 6.9 mi
  • Clamp Hole Waterfall: 22.9 mi
Nature reserves: 2
Cliffs: 2
  • Ballykeefe Quarry: 12.6 mi
  • Ballykeefe Quarry: 12.6 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 20.6 miles of St. Brigid's Well. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Clomantagh HillWSW 240°349 m7.0 mi
KnocknamuckSW 215°340 m12.3 mi
Clogrennan HillE 84°336 m14.9 mi
Fossy MountainNE 37°332 m13.4 mi
Fossy HillNE 36°323 m12.8 mi
Cullenagh MountainNNE 21°317 m12.2 mi
Knockmannon HillW 268°315 m3.2 mi
Ballynalacken HillNE 50°314 m3.9 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:3317:5718:42
June solstice05:0521:0221:59
September equinox07:1618:4519:31
December solstice08:4015:1116:16

Local time (Europe/Dublin).

  • Speckled Wood2 obs
  • Brown Trout1 obs
  • Painted Lady1 obs
  • Brown-lipped Snail1 obs
  • Red Admiral1 obs
  • Hanging sedge1 obs
  • Eurasian Smoothwing1 obs
  • Common Flower Fly1 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/11124027029

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