Elevation of Oughterard, Galway, Ireland

Oughterard, Galway, Ireland is 12 m (39 ft) above sea level.

Oughterard's height from sea level is 12 metres, or 39 feet. GeoNames reads 29 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 68 m.

Ground within 4 km

5 m – 190 m

Mean 40 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 185 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

25th of 34

among the towns of Galway, and 598th of 692 in Ireland.

Nearest town

Cong

12.6 km to the N, at 18 m, 6 m higher.

Cross-section through Oughterard

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 Oughterard; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 121 m at 11 km west to 5 m at 11 km east.

North to south: from 30 m at 11 km north to 59 m at 11 km south.

Shaded relief of the 48 km around Oughterard, 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 Oughterard

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Cong	12.6 km	N	18 m (59 ft)	+6 m
Moycullen	13.8 km	SE	31 m (102 ft)	+19 m
Headford	14.7 km	E	19 m (62 ft)	+7 m
Shrule (Mayo)	18.2 km	NE	31 m (102 ft)	+19 m
Cloonboo	20.4 km	E	9 m (30 ft)	−3 m

Peaks and passes near Oughterard

Binn Mhor, peak at 661 m (2,169 ft), 21.4 km to the W — 649 m above the town.
Barrslievenaroy East Top, hill at 659 m (2,162 ft), 24.8 km to the W — 647 m above the town.
Binn Mhor NE Top, hill at 641 m (2,103 ft), 20.9 km to the W — 629 m above the town.

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

Where Oughterard is

Latitude 53.4316611, longitude -9.3190438. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Oughterard'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 29 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.