Elevation of Balbriggan, Dublin, Ireland

Balbriggan, Dublin, Ireland is 22 m (72 ft) above sea level.

Balbriggan's height from sea level is 22 metres, or 72 feet. GeoNames reads 12 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 6 m.

Also written: Baile Brigín.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 91 m

Mean 30 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 91 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

13th of 22

among the towns of Dublin, and 526th of 692 in Ireland.

Nearest town

4.5 km to the NW, at 19 m, 3 m lower.

Cross-section through Balbriggan

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 Balbriggan; the vertical scale is the same on both.

143-11WE22.9 km
West to east: from 122 m at 11 km west to 0 m at 11 km east.
143-11NS22.9 km
North to south: from 0 m at 11 km north to 5 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Balbriggan, 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 Balbriggan

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Gormanston (Meath) 4.5 kmNW 19 m (62 ft) −3 m
Stamullen (Meath) 5.6 kmNW 28 m (92 ft) +6 m
Skerries 5.9 kmSE 2 m (7 ft) −20 m
Naul 7.3 kmW 74 m (243 ft) +52 m
Laytown (Meath) 8.8 kmNW 3 m (10 ft) −19 m

Peaks and passes near Balbriggan

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

Where Balbriggan is

Latitude 53.6076835, longitude -6.184122. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Balbriggan elevation: 22 m (72 ft) above sea level

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 Balbriggan'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 12 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.