Spring
St. Patrick's Wells
St. Patrick's Wells is a spring, at a modelled elevation of 44 m. Slieve Donard stands 849 m to the southwest, 14 miles off. Causeway Coastal Route passes 25 miles off.
How to reach it
Coordinates54.32439, -5.67738
- 25.2 mi off the Causeway Coastal Route
Named places within 25 miles
Historic sites
- Struell Wells: 0.0 mi
- St Patrick's Statue: 1.8 mi
- St. Patrick's Grave: 1.8 mi
- Grave of Magnus Barefoot: 2.2 mi
- Steamboat Quay: 2.3 mi
Artworks
- Girl from Mars: 1.6 mi
- Strangford Stone: 3.8 mi
- Hans Sloane: 5.2 mi
- On the Way to the Fair: 6.8 mi
- Tonn Ruray Sculptural Horn: 7.9 mi
Parks
- The Grove Recreation Area: 1.8 mi
- Roughal Park Recreation Area: 1.8 mi
- Quoile Steamboat Quay: 2.3 mi
- Delamont Country Park: 3.8 mi
- Killough Green Recreation Area: 5.0 mi
Peaks
- Wallace Hill: 4.4 mi
- Carney Hill: 4.4 mi
- Stump Hill: 7.3 mi
- Edenarrif Mountain: 8.3 mi
- Dunmore Mountain: 9.2 mi
Gardens: 52
- Victorian Garden: 0.8 mi
- Sunken Garden: 4.9 mi
- Nutgrove Garden: 5.2 mi
- Walled Garden: 5.2 mi
- Kilclief Community Garden: 5.2 mi
Cliffs: 45
- Spinkanee: 11.1 mi
- Nerwcastle Beach Bouldering: 12.0 mi
- Eagle Rock: 13.7 mi
- The Castles: 14.4 mi
- Annalong Buttress: 14.7 mi
Attractions: 44
- St Patrick's Chair: 0.1 mi
- The King in the North: 2.3 mi
- Hoster Tully's Funeral Jetty: 2.3 mi
- Castle Ward House: 4.9 mi
- Winterfell Castle Courtyard: 5.2 mi
Museums: 26
- St. Patricks Visitor Centre: 1.7 mi
- Down County Museum: 1.8 mi
- Carriage Gallery: 1.9 mi
- Ards Arts Centre: 18.6 mi
- War Years Remembered: 19.1 mi
Picnic sites: 23
- Inch Abbey Station Picnic Area: 2.5 mi
- Cuan Beach: 5.0 mi
- Ballyhornan Picnic Site: 5.2 mi
- Strangford Holiday Park Picnic Area: 5.4 mi
- Kilclief Recreation/Picnic Area: 5.4 mi
Nature reserves: 19
- Quoile Pondage Basin nature reserve: 2.4 mi
- Hollymount Forest nature reserve: 3.0 mi
- Cloughy Rocks nature reserve: 5.7 mi
- Killard National Nature Reserve: 5.8 mi
- Ballyquintin Point Nature Reserve: 7.1 mi
Springs: 9
- St. Patrick's Wells: 0.0 mi
- Toberasool: 1.0 mi
- Mearing Well: 1.4 mi
- St. Anne's Well: 5.1 mi
- Sunday Well: 5.7 mi
Beaches: 8
- Rossglass Beach: 5.1 mi
- Kilclief Beach: 5.5 mi
- Mill Quarter Beach: 5.5 mi
- Tyrella Beach: 5.6 mi
- Gilpin Harbour: 5.7 mi
Waterfalls: 3
- Black Stairs: 13.0 mi
- Lisnabreeney Waterfall: 18.8 mi
- Stepping Stones: 19.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.9 miles of St. Patrick's Wells. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slieve Donard | SW 225° | 849 m | 14.0 mi |
| Slieve Commedagh | SW 228° | 767 m | 14.1 mi |
| Slieve Bearnagh | SW 232° | 739 m | 15.9 mi |
| Slieve Bearnagh North Tor | SW 233° | 680 m | 15.6 mi |
| Chimney Rock Mtn | SW 220° | 656 m | 14.7 mi |
| Cove Mtn | SW 227° | 654.8 m | 15.2 mi |
| Slieve Corragh | SW 230° | 641.9 m | 14.5 mi |
| Slieve Beg | SW 228° | 595.9 m | 14.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:27 | 17:49 | 18:36 |
| June solstice | 04:49 | 21:02 | 22:02 |
| September equinox | 07:09 | 18:37 | 19:24 |
| December solstice | 08:42 | 14:49 | 16:01 |
Local time (Europe/London).
- Atlantic Dogwhelk5 obs
- Small Tortoiseshell4 obs
- Common Blue Damselfly4 obs
- Speckled Wood3 obs
- Lawn daisy3 obs
- Fairy Foxglove3 obs
- Green Shield Bug3 obs
- horse-chestnut3 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
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