Elevation of Glen, Limerick, Ireland

Glen, Limerick, Ireland is 82 m (269 ft) above sea level.

Glen's height from sea level is 82 metres, or 269 feet. GeoNames reads 85 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

27 m – 125 m

Mean 62 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 98 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

16th of 39

among the towns of Limerick, and 186th of 692 in Ireland.

Nearest town

6 km to the E, at 58 m, 24 m lower.

Cross-section through Glen

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 Glen; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1182WE23.1 km
West to east: from 33 m at 12 km west to 72 m at 12 km east.
1182NS23.1 km
North to south: from 13 m at 12 km north to 64 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 49 km around Glen, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 49 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 Glen

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Caherconlish 6 kmE 58 m (190 ft) −24 m
Annacotty 8.9 kmN 14 m (46 ft) −68 m
Limerick 9.3 kmNW 10 m (33 ft) −72 m
Mungret 10.2 kmNW 11 m (36 ft) −71 m
Patrickswell 10.5 kmW 32 m (105 ft) −50 m

Peaks and passes near Glen

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

Where Glen is

Latitude 52.5903831, longitude -8.5596099. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Glen elevation: 82 m (269 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 Glen'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 85 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.