Elevation of Drogheda, Louth, Ireland

Drogheda, Louth, Ireland is 31 m (102 ft) above sea level.

Drogheda's height from sea level is 31 metres, or 102 feet. GeoNames reads 28 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1 m.

Also written: Droichead Átha.

Ground within 4 km

10 m – 141 m

Mean 43 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 131 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 18

among the towns of Louth, and 468th of 692 in Ireland.

Nearest town

4.9 km to the NW, at 67 m, 36 m higher.

Cross-section through Drogheda

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Drogheda; the vertical scale is the same on both.

124-10WE22.9 km
West to east: from 36 m at 11 km west to 0 m at 11 km east.
124-10NS22.9 km
North to south: from 31 m at 11 km north to 96 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Drogheda, 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 Drogheda

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Tullyallen 4.9 kmNW 67 m (220 ft) +36 m
Donore (Meath) 5.1 kmSW 75 m (246 ft) +44 m
Baltray 6 kmNE 4 m (13 ft) −27 m
Termonfeckin 7.5 kmNE 19 m (62 ft) −12 m
Julianstown-Whitecross (Meath) 7.5 kmSE 13 m (43 ft) −18 m

Peaks and passes near Drogheda

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

Where Drogheda is

Latitude 53.7167718, longitude -6.3543536. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Drogheda elevation: 31 m (102 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 Drogheda'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 28 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.