Elevation of Portlaoighise, Laois, Ireland

Portlaoighise, Laois, Ireland is 93 m (305 ft) above sea level.

Portlaoighise's height from sea level is 93 metres, or 305 feet. GeoNames reads 101 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 139 m.

Also written: Queenstown Port Laoise Maryborough Port Laoighse Portlaoise Port Laoighise.

Ground within 4 km

77 m – 147 m

Mean 101 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 70 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 16

among the towns of Laois, and 126th of 692 in Ireland.

Nearest town

Emo

9.3 km to the NE, at 96 m, 3 m higher.

Cross-section through Portlaoighise

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

West to east: from 121 m at 12 km west to 122 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 73 m at 12 km north to 172 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 48 km around Portlaoighise, 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 Portlaoighise

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Emo	9.3 km	NE	96 m (315 ft)	+3 m
Ballyroan	9.4 km	S	122 m (400 ft)	+29 m
Mountmellick	9.5 km	N	74 m (243 ft)	−19 m
Stradbally	10.5 km	E	83 m (272 ft)	−10 m
Mountrath	12.3 km	W	104 m (341 ft)	+11 m

Peaks and passes near Portlaoighise

Arderin, peak at 527 m (1,729 ft), 23.6 km to the W — 434 m above the town.
Stillbrook Hill, hill at 514 m (1,686 ft), 21.2 km to the W — 421 m above the town.
Baunreaghcong, hill at 508 m (1,667 ft), 15.2 km to the W — 415 m above the town.

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

Where Portlaoighise is

Latitude 53.0343047, longitude -7.3018665. 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 Portlaoighise'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 101 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.