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St Catherine's Well

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

St Catherine's Well is a spring, at a modelled elevation of 61 m. Cappaghabaun Mountain stands 395 m to the south-southwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Aughrim Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. 28 named summits stand within 25 miles.

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Coordinates53.30354, -8.31878
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Springs
Historic sites
  • Kilgerrill Church (ruins): 3.3 mi
  • Killure Castle: 4.3 mi
  • Ballynabanaba Castle: 4.8 mi
  • New Gate: 6.5 mi
  • Clonbrock Castle: 7.7 mi
Peaks: 28
  • Urraghry Hill: 1.5 mi
  • Redmond Hill: 9.1 mi
  • Split Hill: 9.7 mi
  • Sheep Hill: 10.2 mi
  • Sugarloaf Hill: 10.3 mi
Artworks: 27
  • Bobbyjo: 13.7 mi
  • Tired Pilgrim: 13.8 mi
  • Hope: 15.8 mi
  • Machnamh: 17.6 mi
  • Bust of Count John McCormack: 17.6 mi
Attractions: 16
Parks: 14
  • Aughrim Park: 0.0 mi
  • The Walks: 12.5 mi
  • The Long Point: 12.9 mi
  • Burgess Park: 17.7 mi
  • Craughwell AC Athletics Park: 18.3 mi
Museums: 11
  • Battle of Aughrim Interpretative Centre: 0.1 mi
  • Clonmacnoise: 13.8 mi
  • Old Forge: 13.9 mi
  • Heritage Center: 17.6 mi
  • Athlone Music Museum: 17.8 mi
Gardens: 8
Picnic sites: 1
  • Angling Visitor Conference Center: 18.6 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Cappaghabaun MountainSSW 200°395 m24.9 mi
ScalpSSW 198°380 m22.5 mi
Cappaghabaun Mountain EastSSW 197°378 m23.3 mi
Turkenagh MountainSSW 202°360 m23.6 mi
CashlaundrumlahanSW 220°358 m19.2 mi
TullymoreSSW 194°278 m20.6 mi
KnockroeWNW 295°168 m19.2 mi
Mount MaryN 351°164 m18.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:3718:0018:46
June solstice05:0621:0822:06
September equinox07:1918:4919:34
December solstice08:4715:1016:17

Local time (Europe/Dublin).

Wildlife nearby
  • Common Chaffinch1 obs
  • Common Sunburst Lichen1 obs
  • greater plantain1 obs
  • Early Mining Bee1 obs
  • maidenhair spleenwort1 obs
  • Rustyback1 obs
  • Bush Vetch1 obs
  • Eurasian Wren1 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/13732239521

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