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 County Galway, in the west of Ireland.- 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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Recess and Letterfrack.
Recess
Village
Recess, officially Sraith Salach, is a village in County Galway, Ireland. Recess is situated 8 km southeast of Twelve Bens.
Letterfrack
Letterfrack is a village on the coast of Connemara in County Galway, 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
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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
Explore places such as Emlaghdauroe and Connemara.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Glen Coaghan Horseshoe and Bencollaghduff.
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