Elevation of Glassan, Westmeath, Ireland

Glassan, Westmeath, Ireland is 48 m (157 ft) above sea level.

Glassan's height from sea level is 48 metres, or 157 feet. GeoNames reads 52 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 56 m.

Ground within 4 km

35 m – 84 m

Mean 54 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 49 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

15th of 16

among the towns of Westmeath, and 387th of 692 in Ireland.

Nearest town

7.4 km to the SW, at 38 m, 10 m lower.

Cross-section through Glassan

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 Glassan; the vertical scale is the same on both.

12227WE22.9 km
West to east: from 38 m at 11 km west to 76 m at 11 km east.
12227NS22.9 km
North to south: from 43 m at 11 km north to 45 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Glassan, 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 Glassan

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Athlone 7.4 kmSW 38 m (125 ft) −10 m
Ballymahon (Longford) 12.2 kmNE 49 m (161 ft) +1 m
Moate (Longford) 12.3 kmE 80 m (262 ft) +32 m
Ballymore 12.4 kmE 80 m (262 ft) +32 m
Keenagh (Longford) 17.3 kmN 60 m (197 ft) +12 m

Peaks and passes near Glassan

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

Where Glassan is

Latitude 53.4703938, longitude -7.8638774. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Glassan elevation: 48 m (157 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 Glassan'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 52 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.