Ireland cliff
Ballyryan
You can see 115 km from here, looking south-west.
Calculating the panorama…
Drag to turn around. The relief is drawn 2.2 times taller so the ridges can be read; far ridges are paler, as in the real air.
The view
Up to 115 km away.
Calculated on the relief one degree at a time, up to 250 km, with the curvature of the Earth and the refraction of the air: what stands above the horizon from here.
Our own rating, from the relief and the climate only: open horizon (35 points), how far you see (25), sea and named peaks in view (20) and clear months (20).
- 115 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-west
- 98%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 18%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 26Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 40 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 26 peaks you can name from here
From west to east as you turn around: height, distance and direction. Each one links to its guide on Peakyas, our mountain atlas.
From the relief only: buildings, trees and haze are not in the model. On a hazy day you see much less; 250 km is the limit of our calculation.
The sun
The best sunsets are from March to April and from October to November.
When the sun really disappears from this viewpoint — behind the relief or into the sea — and in which direction, on the 15th of each month, in local time.
- Jansouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Maynorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Junnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Augnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- Sepwest6 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Time: when the sun goes behind the horizon you see from here.
- Minutes: how much earlier the relief hides the sun.
- %: share of clear sky that month (NASA, 2001–2020).
The highlighted months are the clearest. Golden hour starts about an hour before.
The place
Ballyryan.
Inland limestone cliff in The Burren, Ireland
Ballyryan is a cliff in Ireland, 40 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 115 km away, looking south-west.
The sea fills 18% of the horizon.
26 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Mount Brandon (952 m), 111 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 98% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from March to April and from October to November.
Get there and stay
- Aille River Hostel Campsitecampsite · 5.7 km · 4 within 10 km
- Ballinalacken Castle Country House and Restaurantplace to stay · 2.6 km · 93 within 10 km
- Ennistimonnearest town · 14 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in EnnistimonBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Shannon Airport (SNN)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 50 km in a straight lineCar hire at SNN airport (Shannon)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above
The viewpoint and its surroundings.
The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 3other viewpoints within 5 km
- 1named peaks within 5 kmKnockacarn
- 1marked trails within 3 kmBurren Way
- 6car parks within 3 km
- 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 4campsites within 10 kmAille River Hostel Campsite, Riverside Camping, Nagle's Camping & Caravan Park and 1 more
- 93places to stay within 10 kmBallinalacken Castle Country House and Restaurant, Glasha Meadows B&B, Daleview B&B and 90 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- shelters and huts within 5 km
- visitor centres within 5 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
In our other atlases
What you see from Ballyryan, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas28 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The view, as people saw it.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Ballyryan
Ireland
- 75Viewyas Score
- 115 kmFarthest ridge
- 26Peaks in view
- 40 mAltitude
Cliffs of Moher
Ireland · 16 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 108 kmFarthest ridge
- 43Peaks in view
- 40 mAltitude
Croagh Patrick
Ireland · 80 km
- 84Viewyas Score
- 183 kmFarthest ridge
- 53Peaks in view
- 755 mAltitude
Aill na Cronain
Ireland · 15 km
- 56Viewyas Score
- 75 kmFarthest ridge
- 27Peaks in view
- 100 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q56810071) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Sun | J. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms |
| Peaks in view | Peakyas (Wikidata, CC0) |
| Panorama and altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Clouds | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Islandyas, Lakeyas, Darkskyas, Cavernyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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