Elevation of Ahascragh, Galway, Ireland

Ahascragh, Galway, Ireland is 52 m (171 ft) above sea level.

Ahascragh's height from sea level is 52 metres, or 171 feet. GeoNames reads 55 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

44 m – 74 m

Mean 55 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 30 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

10th of 34

among the towns of Galway, and 362nd of 692 in Ireland.

Nearest town

11.3 km to the SE, at 40 m, 12 m lower.

Cross-section through Ahascragh

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

9332WE23 km
West to east: from 73 m at 12 km west to 44 m at 12 km east.
9332NS23 km
North to south: from 53 m at 12 km north to 82 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Ahascragh, 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 Ahascragh

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Ballinasloe 11.3 kmSE 40 m (131 ft) −12 m
Ballygar 13.5 kmN 55 m (180 ft) +3 m
Mount Bellew 14.2 kmNW 67 m (220 ft) +15 m
Moylough 18.2 kmNW 76 m (249 ft) +24 m
Shannonbridge (Offaly) 23.4 kmSE 35 m (115 ft) −17 m

Peaks and passes near Ahascragh

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

Where Ahascragh is

Latitude 53.3998911, longitude -8.334955. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Ahascragh elevation: 52 m (171 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 Ahascragh'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 55 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.