Ben of Howth

The Ben of Howth is a hilly area on Howth Head, adjacent to the 171 metre high Black Linn, the peninsula's highest point.
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 171 metres
  • Description: mountain in Ireland
  • Also known as: Binn Eadair”, “Hill of Howth”, and “Shelmartin

Places of Interest

Highlights include Howth Castle and Shielmartin Hill.

Castle
is a historic dwelling, originally of Norman origin, that lies by the village of , , ; it is sited within a substantial estate.

Peak
Photo: Sarah777, Public domain.
or Shelmartin is a peak on Howth Head in , Ireland. From it can be seen , , and the coastal areas behind it, and most of . References to it being called Shielmartin go back to at least 1654.

Railway station
station, is a railway station in , Ireland that serves village and one side of Head.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Howth and Sutton.

is a small seaside town historically in , 14 km northeast of city centre. It's on a "tombola" peninsula - once an island, it became connected to the mainland by a sandy isthmus, which is now the residential area of Sutton.

Village
is a residential suburb on the Northside of , . It occupies the tombolo which links Howth Head to the mainland, some of the lower slopes of Howth Hill, and a little of the adjacent coasts.

Suburb
is a coastal suburb of , , it was developed from a former fishing village. is also a civil parish in the barony of Coolock within the traditional .

Ben of Howth

Latitude
53.37339° or 53° 22′ 24″ north
Longitude
-6.0694° or 6° 4′ 10″ west
Elevation
171 metres (561 feet)
Open location code
9C5M9WFJ+96
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6829492581
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
2963721
Wiki­data ID
Q3381390
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Ben of Howth” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: Ben of Howth
  • Dutch: Ben of Howth
  • Irish: Binn Éadair
  • Ladin: Ben of Howth
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Ben of Howth
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Ben of Howth
  • Norwegian: Ben of Howth
  • Polish: Ben of Howth
  • Swedish: Ben of Howth

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ben of Howth”. Photo: JP, CC BY-SA 2.0.