Barretstown Gang Camp

Barretstown Gang Camp is a hospital in County Kildare, Leinster. Barretstown Gang Camp is situated nearby to the house Barretstown Castle, as well as near the peak Slieveroe.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Barretstown Castle and Russborough House.

Barretstown Castle

House

Barretstown Castle is a castle in Ballymore Eustace, County Kildare, Ireland. It stands on the site of a late 12th century Anglo-Norman castle. It now hosts the Barretstown camp for sick children.

Russborough House is a Georgian Palladian house between Blessington and Ballymore Eustace near the Blessington Lakes in County Wicklow, Ireland. The house was designed by Richard Castle for Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown and built between 1741 and 1755. Russborough House is situated 2½ km southeast of Barretstown Gang Camp.

Poulaphouca Reservoir

Power station

Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Poulaphouca Reservoir, officially Pollaphuca, is an active reservoir and area of wild bird conservation in west County Wicklow, Ireland named after the Poulaphouca waterfall on its south-western end where the water exits the lake. Poulaphouca Reservoir is situated 3½ km south of Barretstown Gang Camp.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Blessington and Hollywood.

Blessington

Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Blessington is a small town in County Wicklow, with a population in 2022 of about 5600. It's west of the Wicklow mountains and this part of the county is low-lying and rural.

Hollywood

Village

Photo: Sarah777, Public domain.

Hollywood is a village in west County Wicklow, Ireland. It is 15 km south of Naas on the Wicklow Gap road near its junction with the N81 road. A population of less than 100 people registered in the 2002 Census, though the community draws from a larger area which consists of about 500 people. Hollywood is situated 7 km south of Barretstown Gang Camp.

Valleymount

Village

Photo: James Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Valleymount is a small village in western County Wicklow, Ireland. The name 'Valleymount' does not appear before 1839. Previously, the village was known as 'the Cross of Ballymore' or simply 'the Cross', with 'cross' referring to land belonging to the church. Valleymount is situated 7 km southeast of Barretstown Gang Camp.

Barretstown Gang Camp

Type: Hospital
Postal code: W91 RDX6
Category: health care
Location: County Kildare, Leinster, East Coast and Midlands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.15273° or 53° 9′ 10″ north

Longitude

-6.59769° or 6° 35′ 52″ west

Operator

The Barretstown Camp Fund Ltd.

Open location code

9C5M5C32+3W

OpenStreetMap ID

way 447939545

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=hospital

OpenStreetMap feature

healthcare=hospital

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