Elevation of Carlow, Ireland

Carlow, Ireland is 54 m (177 ft) above sea level.

Carlow's height from sea level is 54 metres, or 177 feet. GeoNames reads 55 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 57 m.

Also written: Ceatharlach.

Ground within 4 km

45 m – 87 m

Mean 58 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 42 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 14

among the towns of Carlow, and 349th of 692 in Ireland.

Nearest town

Tinriland

0.6 km to the N, at 54 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Carlow

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Carlow; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 279 m at 12 km west to 85 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 68 m at 12 km north to 98 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 48 km around Carlow, 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 Carlow

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Tinriland	0.6 km	N	54 m (177 ft)	same
Kernanstown	3.1 km	E	85 m (279 ft)	+31 m
Castledermot (Kildare)	10.3 km	NE	78 m (256 ft)	+24 m
Leighlinbridge	11.7 km	S	46 m (151 ft)	−8 m
Newtown (Laois)	12.8 km	W	198 m (650 ft)	+144 m

Peaks and passes near Carlow

Slievebawn, peak at 525 m (1,722 ft), 23.2 km to the S — 471 m above the town.
Croaghaun, peak at 456 m (1,496 ft), 21.9 km to the SE — 402 m above the town.
Greenoge, peak at 425 m (1,394 ft), 23.9 km to the SE — 371 m above the town.

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

Where Carlow is

Latitude 52.835975, longitude -6.9245496. 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 Carlow'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 55 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.