Elevation of Donegal, Ireland

Donegal, Ireland is 15 m (49 ft) above sea level.

Donegal's height from sea level is 15 metres, or 49 feet. GeoNames reads 9 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 32 m.

Also written: Dún na nGall Tír Chonaill.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 220 m

Mean 50 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 220 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

43rd of 56

among the towns of Donegal, and 575th of 692 in Ireland.

Nearest town

Laghy

4.5 km to the S, at 24 m, 9 m higher.

Cross-section through Donegal

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Donegal; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 59 m at 11 km west to 203 m at 11 km east.

North to south: from 384 m at 11 km north to 75 m at 11 km south.

Shaded relief of the 48 km around Donegal, 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 Donegal

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Laghy	4.5 km	S	24 m (79 ft)	+9 m
Mountcharles	5.7 km	W	74 m (243 ft)	+59 m
Ballintra	8.7 km	S	31 m (102 ft)	+16 m
Dunkineely	16.6 km	W	60 m (197 ft)	+45 m
Ballyshannon	17.8 km	S	28 m (92 ft)	+13 m

Peaks and passes near Donegal

Lavagh More, hill at 671 m (2,201 ft), 12.5 km to the N — 656 m above the town.
An Leamhaigh Bheag, hill at 650 m (2,133 ft), 13 km to the N — 635 m above the town.
Ard na gCaor, hill at 642 m (2,106 ft), 13 km to the N — 627 m above the town.

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

Where Donegal is

Latitude 54.654487, longitude -8.1107141. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

Put this on your site

<a href="https://www.altitude-maps.com/city/100_267,Donegal,Donegal,Ireland"><img src="https://www.altitude-maps.com/embed/100_267.svg" width="240" height="60" alt="Donegal elevation: 15 m (49 ft) above sea level"></a>

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 Donegal'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 9 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.