Elevation of Loughrea, Galway, Ireland

Loughrea, Galway, Ireland is 81 m (266 ft) above sea level.

Loughrea's height from sea level is 81 metres, or 266 feet. GeoNames reads 84 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 82 m.

Also written: Baile Locha Riach.

Ground within 4 km

50 m – 140 m

Mean 87 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 90 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 34

among the towns of Galway, and 190th of 692 in Ireland.

Nearest town

11.3 km to the W, at 28 m, 53 m lower.

Cross-section through Loughrea

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Loughrea; the vertical scale is the same on both.

29834WE23 km
West to east: from 60 m at 12 km west to 72 m at 12 km east.
29834NS23 km
North to south: from 86 m at 12 km north to 199 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Loughrea, 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 Loughrea

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Craughwell 11.3 kmW 28 m (92 ft) −53 m
Athenry 16.2 kmNW 43 m (141 ft) −38 m
Killimor 19.1 kmE 55 m (180 ft) −26 m
Woodford 19.9 kmSE 84 m (276 ft) +3 m
Clarinbridge 21 kmW 9 m (30 ft) −72 m

Peaks and passes near Loughrea

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

Where Loughrea is

Latitude 53.2000301, longitude -8.569612. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Loughrea elevation: 81 m (266 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 Loughrea'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 84 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.