Elevation of Athy, Kildare, Ireland

Athy, Kildare, Ireland is 56 m (184 ft) above sea level.

Athy's height from sea level is 56 metres, or 184 feet. GeoNames reads 62 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 71 m.

Also written: Áth Baile Átha Í.

Ground within 4 km

53 m – 69 m

Mean 62 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 16 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

33rd of 35

among the towns of Kildare, and 339th of 692 in Ireland.

Nearest town

Kilberry

4.5 km to the NW, at 61 m, 5 m higher.

Cross-section through Athy

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

West to east: from 162 m at 12 km west to 94 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 74 m at 12 km north to 63 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 48 km around Athy, 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 Athy

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Kilberry	4.5 km	NW	61 m (200 ft)	+5 m
Ballyroe	5.2 km	NW	61 m (200 ft)	+5 m
Ballylinan (Laois)	6.4 km	SW	78 m (256 ft)	+22 m
Stradbally (Laois)	11.1 km	W	83 m (272 ft)	+27 m
Ballytore	11.5 km	E	106 m (348 ft)	+50 m

Peaks and passes near Athy

Spinans Hill, peak at 409 m (1,342 ft), 23.9 km to the E — 353 m above the town.
Cloghnagaune, hill at 385 m (1,263 ft), 24.9 km to the E — 329 m above the town.
Baltinglass Hill, hill at 382 m (1,253 ft), 20.9 km to the E — 326 m above the town.

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

Where Athy is

Latitude 52.9919671, longitude -6.9869824. 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 Athy'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 62 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.