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St Dympna's Well

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

St Dympna's Well is a spring, at a modelled elevation of 134 m. Slieve Beagh stands 380 m to the west, 5.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Coolberrin Hill, a peak 3.2 miles away.

How to reach it

Coordinates54.32790, -7.05406

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Historic sites
Attractions: 52
  • Carleton's Cottage: 6.2 mi
  • Banba Giant: 6.9 mi
  • Roddy-Den-Drum Giant: 7.2 mi
  • Big Ross Giant: 7.3 mi
  • Spike Giant: 7.3 mi
Parks: 47
  • Hollywood Park: 4.3 mi
  • Emy Lough: 4.7 mi
  • Monaghan Rotary Club Garden: 6.1 mi
  • Peter's Lake: 6.4 mi
  • Oakland Park: 6.4 mi
Artworks: 23
  • Brian Boru: 16.1 mi
  • Celestial Sphere: 16.2 mi
  • StarStone: 16.2 mi
  • Market Days and Fair Days: 16.2 mi
  • Saints and Scholars Railings: 16.2 mi
Springs: 15
  • Saint Patrick's Well: 4.5 mi
  • St. Muadain's Well: 5.0 mi
  • Jaundice Well: 9.3 mi
  • Tobernamona: 10.1 mi
  • Saint John's Well: 11.6 mi
Museums: 14
Gardens: 8
  • The Walled Garden: 7.5 mi
  • Vegetable Garden: 11.3 mi
  • McGuigan Gardens: 12.4 mi
  • Lanesborough Walled Garden: 18.6 mi
  • Walled Garden: 19.1 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Favour Royal Forest Picnic Site: 6.7 mi
  • Field Study Park: 11.3 mi
  • Fireagh Picnic Area: 21.0 mi
Nature reserves: 3
  • Ballybay Wetland Centre: 15.0 mi
  • Drumcrow ASSI: 20.0 mi
  • Devenish Local Nature Reserve: 23.7 mi
Waterfalls: 1
  • Castleshane Waterfall: 9.7 mi
Beaches: 1
  • Annagh Lough Beach: 22.9 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 18.3 miles of St Dympna's Well. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Slieve BeaghW 278°380 m5.7 mi
Slieve Beagh SE TopW 278°373 m5.2 mi
EshmoreW 267°337 m3.8 mi
Brougher MountainWNW 292°317 m17.7 mi
SlievemoreN 354°314 m11.9 mi
StraniskNW 306°312 m14.3 mi
EschleaghWSW 249°231 m10.9 mi
Coolberrin HillN 358°216 m3.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:3217:5418:41
June solstice04:5421:0722:07
September equinox07:1418:4319:30
December solstice08:4814:5516:06

Local time (Europe/Dublin).

  • tussock cottongrass2 obs
  • great horsetail1 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/13749530316

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