Elevation of Shannon, Clare, Ireland

Shannon, Clare, Ireland is 4 m (13 ft) above sea level.

Shannon's height from sea level is 4 metres, or 13 feet. GeoNames reads 2 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 0 m.

Also written: Sionna An tSionainn.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 39 m

Mean 11 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 39 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

31st of 32

among the towns of Clare, and 671st of 692 in Ireland.

Nearest town

Newmarket-on-Fergus

5.6 km to the N, at 23 m, 19 m higher.

Cross-section through Shannon

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Shannon; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 14 m at 12 km west to 104 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 34 m at 12 km north to 40 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 48 km around Shannon, 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 Shannon

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Newmarket-on-Fergus	5.6 km	N	23 m (75 ft)	+19 m
Pallaskenry (Limerick)	7.5 km	S	12 m (39 ft)	+8 m
Sixmilebridge	7.9 km	NE	18 m (59 ft)	+14 m
Cratloe	8.4 km	E	34 m (112 ft)	+30 m
Ballymulcashel	10.4 km	NE	45 m (148 ft)	+41 m

Peaks and passes near Shannon

Woodcock Hill, peak at 310 m (1,017 ft), 11.6 km to the E — 306 m above the town.
Knockanuarha, hill at 309 m (1,014 ft), 14.7 km to the NE — 305 m above the town.
Ben Dash, hill at 267 m (876 ft), 21.3 km to the NW — 263 m above the town.

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

Where Shannon is

Latitude 52.7107429, longitude -8.8789691. 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 Shannon'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 2 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.