Elevation of Buncrana, Donegal, Ireland

Buncrana, Donegal, Ireland is 10 m (33 ft) above sea level.

Buncrana's height from sea level is 10 metres, or 33 feet. GeoNames reads 20 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 62 m.

Also written: Bun Crannaighe Bun Cranncha.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 263 m

Mean 65 m across the 8 km square centred on the town, 263 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

48th of 56

among the towns of Donegal, and 622nd of 692 in Ireland.

Nearest town

Fahan

5 km to the S, at 3 m, 7 m lower.

Cross-section through Buncrana

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Buncrana; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 110 m at 11 km west to 210 m at 11 km east.

North to south: from 216 m at 11 km north to 137 m at 11 km south.

Shaded relief of the 47 km around Buncrana, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 47 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 Buncrana

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Fahan	5 km	S	3 m (10 ft)	−7 m
Rathmullen	6.9 km	SW	12 m (39 ft)	+2 m
Tievebane	7 km	S	26 m (85 ft)	+16 m
Burnfoot	8.7 km	S	37 m (121 ft)	+27 m
Bridge End	11.2 km	SE	16 m (52 ft)	+6 m

Peaks and passes near Buncrana

Slieve Snaght, peak at 615 m (2,018 ft), 10.3 km to the NE — 605 m above the town.
Slieve Main, peak at 514 m (1,686 ft), 8.7 km to the NE — 504 m above the town.
Raghtin More, peak at 502 m (1,647 ft), 13.7 km to the N — 492 m above the town.

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

Where Buncrana is

Latitude 55.1328257, longitude -7.4527449. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Buncrana'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 20 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.