Elevation of Kells, Meath, Ireland

Kells, Meath, Ireland is 75 m (246 ft) above sea level.

Kells's height from sea level is 75 metres, or 246 feet. GeoNames reads 77 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 66 m.

Also written: Ceannus Mór Ceannanus Mór.

Ground within 4 km

46 m – 99 m

Mean 69 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 53 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 31

among the towns of Meath, and 213th of 692 in Ireland.

Nearest town

2.5 km to the E, at 50 m, 25 m lower.

Cross-section through Kells

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 Kells; the vertical scale is the same on both.

16441WE22.9 km
West to east: from 126 m at 11 km west to 57 m at 11 km east.
16441NS22.9 km
North to south: from 155 m at 11 km north to 69 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Kells, 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 Kells

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Kilmainham 2.5 kmE 50 m (164 ft) −25 m
Mullagh (Cavan) 10.6 kmNW 112 m (367 ft) +37 m
Clonmellon (Westmeath) 11.5 kmSW 90 m (295 ft) +15 m
Athboy 11.7 kmS 68 m (223 ft) −7 m
Nobber 13.6 kmNE 59 m (194 ft) −16 m

Peaks and passes near Kells

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

Where Kells is

Latitude 53.725821, longitude -6.8791723. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Kells elevation: 75 m (246 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 Kells'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 77 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.