Lough Dan
- Area
- 1.01 km²
- Max depth
- 18 m
- Tonight
- 6°CCloudy · Wind 20 km/h SW
Lough Dan is a lake at 203 m above sea level in Ireland, 1.01 km² in area and 2.5 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 203 m
- Length
- 2.5 km
- Shoreline
- 6.3 km
Lough Dan in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 6.3 km≈1½ h to walk around
Lough Dan 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 4.5 × 4.5 km
Lough Dan terrain and contours
20 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
Lough Dan elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Lough Dan weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 6°C (43°F) · 1.6 mm · Wind 20 km/h SW
Lough Dan forecast for about 203 m.
- Tonight6°1.6 mm20 km/h SW
- Today6°13°16.7 mm44 km/h W
- Sun6°10°2.6 mm43 km/h W
- Mon9°15°12.7 mm37 km/h S
- Tue8°9°1.5 mm35 km/h W
- Wed7°12°0.5 mm25 km/h W
- Thu8°11°3.6 mm24 km/h S
- Fri10°12°20.8 mm20 km/h S
- Sat4°10°0.5 mm18 km/h NW
- Sun3°6°0.2 mm21 km/h NW
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.
Camping & parking near Lough Dan
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Lough Dan, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
Lough Dan Scout Centre
Nearest parking
1.8 km SSE
All mapped places 6
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Lough Dan Scout CentreCampsite | 1.8 km SSE |
| Parking | 1.8 km SSE |
| Parking | 2.3 km SSE |
| Wicklow Way CampingCampsite | 2.7 km SSE |
| Parking | 2.7 km SE |
| Roundwood Caravan & Camping ParkCampsite | 4.4 km E |
Slope
Share of the 4.5 × 4.5 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 72% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 2.0% of the 20 km² view
- Relief in view
- 440 m low point 194 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Where Lough Dan sits
Nearby places
LuggalaPeak · 595 m↑3.8 km N
Lough TayLake↑4.0 km NNE
Vartry ReservoirLake↑5.9 km ESE
TonelageePeak · 817 m↑7.0 km WSW
DjoucePeak · 725 m↑7.2 km NNE
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Data sources
- Terrain
- Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025 (scene 2025-04-09)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Camping & parking, Geometry
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Panorama
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)