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Ladies View

You can see 42 km from here, looking north-east.

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 42 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.

50out of 100

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).

  • 42 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-east
  • 89%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
  • 14Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
  • 168 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint

The 14 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.

Forehane391 m · 38 km · north-eastMullaghareirk409 m · 52 km · north-eastTorc Mountain535 m · 6.2 km · north-eastMangerton Mountain838 m · 7.5 km · eastBrassel Mountain575 m · 7.7 km · westCaher1,000 m · 12 km · westCnoc an Chuillinn958 m · 8.7 km · westMaolán Buí973 m · 8.1 km · north-westCnoc na Péiste988 m · 7.9 km · north-westThe Big Gun939 m · 7.6 km · north-westPurple Mountain832 m · 5.2 km · north

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 September to October.

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.

  1. Jansouth-west132 min before the sea-level sunset24%
  2. Febsouth-west38 min before the sea-level sunset23%
  3. Marwest30 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  4. Aprwest24 min before the sea-level sunset28%
  5. Maynorth-west46 min before the sea-level sunset24%
  6. Junnorth-west48 min before the sea-level sunset23%
  7. Julnorth-west48 min before the sea-level sunset20%
  8. Augwest36 min before the sea-level sunset23%
  9. Sepwest32 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  10. Octwest36 min before the sea-level sunset27%
  11. Novsouth-west64 min before the sea-level sunset26%
  12. Decsouth168 min before the sea-level sunset24%
  • 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

Ladies View.

Scenic viewpoint in Kerry, Ireland

Ladies View is a scenic viewpoint in Ireland, 168 m above the sea.

On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 42 km away, looking north-east.

14 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Purple Mountain (832 m), 5 km away.

The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 89% of the circle.

The skies are clearest from March to April and from September to October.

Ladies View (2012)
Bob Familiar · CC BY 2.0

Get there and stay

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.

Ladies View seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 15other viewpoints within 5 kmTorc Mountain, Meeting of the waters, Moll's Gap and 12 more
  • 23named peaks within 5 kmPurple Mountain, Cnoc an Bhráca, Knockbrack and 20 more
  • 2marked trails within 3 kmThe Kerry Way, European long distance path E8 - part Ireland
  • 2shelters and huts within 5 kmHiker Shelter
  • 14car parks within 3 km
  • 2restaurants and cafés within 3 km
  • 4campsites within 10 kmCronin's Yard Camping, Flesk Camping, Fleming's White Bridge Caravan and Camping Park and 1 more
  • 101places to stay within 10 kmHillcrest farmhouse B&B, Shamrock Farmhouse, An Bruachán and 98 more
  • cable car and funicular stations 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 Ladies View, and what is near.

Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.

Peakyas128 mountains within 25 km
Mangerton Mountain838 m · 7.4 kmCnoc na Péiste988 m · 7.9 kmMaolán Buí973 m · 8.0 kmCnoc an Chuillinn958 m · 8.7 kmCarrauntoohil1,039 m · 11 kmBeenkeragh1,008 m · 11 kmCaher1,000 m · 12 kmKnockboy706 m · 21 km
Lakeyas4 lakes within 15 km
Upper Lake, Killarney1.5 km² · 1.4 kmLough Leane21 km² · 9.9 kmLough Brin0.2 km² · 12 kmLough Guitane2.4 km² · 13 km
Cascadyas3 waterfalls within 15 km
Cores Cascade · 3.6 kmTorc Waterfall · 7.3 kmO'Sullivans Cascade · 7.5 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The view, as people saw it.

Killarney National Park - Ladies View
Pedelecs · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ladies View Sign Kerry
Tony Hall · CC BY 2.0
Ladies' view 9.5.14 - panoramio
Sebastian “sebrem” B… · CC BY-SA 3.0

Other viewpoints nearby.

Ladies View

Ireland

  • 50Viewyas Score
  • 42 kmFarthest ridge
  • 14Peaks in view
  • 168 mAltitude

Carrauntoohil

Ireland · 11 km

  • 85Viewyas Score
  • 186 kmFarthest ridge
  • 58Peaks in view
  • 1,019 mAltitude

See the guide

Cliffs of Moher

Ireland · 108 km

  • 77Viewyas Score
  • 108 kmFarthest ridge
  • 43Peaks in view
  • 40 mAltitude

See the guide

Ballyryan

Ireland · 123 km

  • 75Viewyas Score
  • 115 kmFarthest ridge
  • 26Peaks in view
  • 40 mAltitude

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q2559648) · CC0
SunJ. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms
Peaks in viewPeakyas (Wikidata, CC0)
Panorama and altitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
CloudsNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Islandyas, Lakeyas, Forestyas, Birdyas, Cascadyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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