Elevation of Rathnew, Wicklow, Ireland

Rathnew, Wicklow, Ireland is 15 m (49 ft) above sea level.

Rathnew's height from sea level is 15 metres, or 49 feet. GeoNames reads 28 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 71 m.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 164 m

Mean 53 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 164 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

24th of 25

among the towns of Wicklow, and 575th of 692 in Ireland.

Nearest town

Ashford

2.5 km to the NW, at 31 m, 16 m higher.

Cross-section through Rathnew

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

West to east: from 215 m at 12 km west to 0 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 62 m at 12 km north to 5 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 48 km around Rathnew, 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 Rathnew

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Ashford	2.5 km	NW	31 m (102 ft)	+16 m
Wicklow	3.1 km	SE	29 m (95 ft)	+14 m
Glenealy	5.4 km	SW	112 m (367 ft)	+97 m
Newtownmountkennedy	10.8 km	N	95 m (312 ft)	+80 m
Roundwood	12 km	NW	234 m (768 ft)	+219 m

Peaks and passes near Rathnew

Mullaghcleevaun, peak at 847 m (2,779 ft), 24.8 km to the NW — 832 m above the town.
Tonelagee, peak at 816 m (2,677 ft), 21.2 km to the W — 801 m above the town.
Clocharnach, peak at 800 m (2,625 ft), 23.4 km to the W — 785 m above the town.

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

Where Rathnew is

Latitude 52.9959503, longitude -6.0809966. 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 Rathnew'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 28 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.