Twelve Bens

The Twelve Bens or Twelve Pins, also called the Benna Beola, is a mountain range of mostly sharp-peaked quartzite summits and ridges in Connemara National Park in , in the west of .
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  • Mountain rising to 651 metres (2,136 feet)
  • Description: mountain range in Galway, Ireland
  • Also known as
    “Benna Beola”
    “The Twelve Bens”
    “Twelve Pins”
    “Twelve Pins of Bennebeola”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Benbreen and Bengower.
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at 691 metres, is the 100th–highest peak…
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at 664 metres, is the 135th–highest peak…
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is a mountain in , Ireland.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Recess and Letterfrack.
, officially Sraith Salach, is a village in , . is situated 8 km southeast of Twelve Bens.
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is a village on the coast of Connemara in , with a population of about 200.

Twelve Bens

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Latitude
53.5° or 53° 30′ north
Longitude
-9.83333° or 9° 50′ west
Open location code
9C5GG528+2M
Geo­Names ID
2961051
Wiki­data ID
Q1093773

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Venetian—“Twelve Bens” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Twelve Bens”
  • Cebuano: “The Twelve Pins”
  • Dutch: “Twelve Bens”
  • French: “Twelve Bens”
  • French: “Twelves Bens”
  • German: “Twelve Bens”
  • Hungarian: “Tizenkét tű hegység”
  • Irish: “Beanna Beola”
  • Irish: “Na Beanna Beola”
  • Italian: “Twelve Bens”
  • Italian: “Twelve Pins”
  • Japanese: “トゥエルヴ・ベンズ”
  • Ladin: “Twelve Bens”
  • Lithuanian: “Dvylikos kalnų grandinė”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Na Beanna Beola”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Twelve Bens”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Na Beanna Beola”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Twelve Bens”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Twelve Pins”
  • Norwegian: “Twelve Bens”
  • Polish: “Twelve Pins”
  • Spanish: “Twelve Bens”
  • Swedish: “The Twelve Pins”
  • Thai: “เทือกเขาทเวลฟ์เบนส์”
  • Venetian: “Twelve Bens”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Glen Coaghan Horseshoe and Bencollaghduff.

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