Elevation of Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland

Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland is 8 m (26 ft) above sea level.

Letterkenny's height from sea level is 8 metres, or 26 feet. GeoNames reads 8 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 52 m.

Also written: Leitir Ceanainn Leitir Ceannainn.

Ground within 4 km

2 m – 214 m

Mean 106 m across the 8 km square centred on the town, 212 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

51st of 56

among the towns of Donegal, and 643rd of 692 in Ireland.

Nearest town

Manorcunningham

7.2 km to the E, at 53 m, 45 m higher.

Cross-section through Letterkenny

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Letterkenny; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 72 m at 11 km west to 36 m at 11 km east.

North to south: from 85 m at 11 km north to 57 m at 11 km south.

Shaded relief of the 48 km around Letterkenny, 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 Letterkenny

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Manorcunningham	7.2 km	E	53 m (174 ft)	+45 m
Kilmacrennan	9.5 km	N	38 m (125 ft)	+30 m
Convoy	10.9 km	SE	43 m (141 ft)	+35 m
Ramelton	11.2 km	NE	18 m (59 ft)	+10 m
Raphoe	12 km	SE	62 m (203 ft)	+54 m

Peaks and passes near Letterkenny

Slieve Snaght, peak at 678 m (2,224 ft), 24.9 km to the W — 670 m above the town.
An Mhucais, peak at 667 m (2,188 ft), 24 km to the NW — 659 m above the town.
Dooish, peak at 652 m (2,139 ft), 21.1 km to the NW — 644 m above the town.
Meenirroy, pass at 283 m (928 ft), 17.3 km to the W.

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

Where Letterkenny is

Latitude 54.9490373, longitude -7.7342166. 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 Letterkenny'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 8 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.