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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 54 m. Slieve Bawn stands 316 m to the northeast, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Bobbyjo, a artwork 1.3 miles away. 15 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates53.47805, -8.47236

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
Springs
  • Cloonoran Well: 3.8 mi
  • Polladirk: 4.5 mi
  • St Brendan's Well: 4.7 mi
  • Tobernalunaght: 4.8 mi
  • Yellow Well: 6.0 mi
Peaks: 15
  • Mount Mary: 7.1 mi
  • Fair Hill: 11.8 mi
  • Knockroe: 11.8 mi
  • Rook Hill: 12.9 mi
  • Sheep Hill: 13.7 mi
Parks: 10
  • Aughrim Park: 13.7 mi
  • Green: 16.9 mi
  • The Walks: 19.6 mi
  • Craughwell AC Athletics Park: 20.3 mi
  • The Long Point: 20.4 mi
Artworks: 9
Attractions: 9
Museums: 7
Gardens: 3
Picnic sites: 1
  • Angling Visitor Conference Center: 10.8 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Slieve BawnNE 44°315.6 m23.4 mi
KnockroeWSW 250°168 m11.8 mi
Mount MaryNNE 28°164 m7.1 mi
Redmond HillSE 142°129 m22.2 mi
Sugarloaf HillSE 130°62 m21.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:3818:0118:47
June solstice05:0521:0922:07
September equinox07:2018:4919:35
December solstice08:4915:0916:17

Local time (Europe/Dublin).

  • Large Red Damselfly2 obs
  • European Robin1 obs
  • European Starling1 obs
  • Azure Damselfly1 obs
  • round-leaved sundew1 obs
  • Lesser hop trefoil1 obs
  • Large White1 obs
  • common dog-violet1 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/11755129810

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