Elevation of Brittas, Dublin, Ireland

Brittas, Dublin, Ireland is 237 m (778 ft) above sea level.

Brittas's height from sea level is 237 metres, or 778 feet. GeoNames reads 231 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 220 m.

Ground within 4 km

120 m – 451 m

Mean 255 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 331 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 22

among the towns of Dublin, and 4th of 692 in Ireland.

Nearest town

4.9 km to the N, at 132 m, 105 m lower.

Cross-section through Brittas

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Brittas; the vertical scale is the same on both.

5243WE23 km
West to east: from 123 m at 12 km west to 399 m at 12 km east.
5243NS23 km
North to south: from 42 m at 12 km north to 461 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Brittas, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 48 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Brittas

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Saggart 4.9 kmN 132 m (433 ft) −105 m
Rathcoole 5.3 kmN 122 m (400 ft) −115 m
Blessington (Wicklow) 9 kmSW 201 m (659 ft) −36 m
Johnstown (Kildare) 11.3 kmW 89 m (292 ft) −148 m
Ballyoulster (Kildare) 12.5 kmN 51 m (167 ft) −186 m

Peaks and passes near Brittas

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Brittas is

Latitude 53.2354952, longitude -6.452475. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Brittas elevation: 237 m (778 ft) above sea level

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Brittas's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 231 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.