Ballycotton water level

Name: Ballycotton water level (Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie))
Creator: Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie)
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Tidal gauge, Cork, Ireland

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Latest reading

Water level

2.32m Down 0.11 m over the last 24 hours

Measured 17 Oct 2026, 12:10 GMT+1 (16 min ago)

History

7 days

Water level

What this means

Ballycotton reads 2.32 m as of 17 Oct 2026, 12:10 GMT+1. The agency publishes no normal range or warning level for this tidal gauge yet, so there is nothing to judge the number against.

It has dropped 0.11 m over the past 24 hours. In the last month it has stayed between 0.85 m and 3.20 m.

The agency publishes no normal range for this gauge yet, so we show the trend only. How to read levels

Key numbers

Highest on record: 4.98 m

Weather at the gauge

Rain in the last 3 days: 8.1 mm. Rain that falls upstream can take hours or days to show up at a river gauge.

17 Sat 12° 4° – Wind 14 km/h

18 Sun 13° 5° – Wind 12 km/h

19 Mon 13° 3° 0.8 mm, 51% Wind 16 km/h

20 Tue 13° 11° 6.7 mm, 45% Wind 23 km/h

21 Wed 12° 6° 5.1 mm, 40% Wind 48 km/h

22 Thu 13° 4° – Wind 23 km/h

23 Fri 11° 4° 35 mm, 65% Wind 42 km/h

Forecast: Open-Meteo

Sunrise 08:00 AM Sunset 06:36 PM Daylight 10 hr, 36 min First quarter 39%

Map

Nearby gauges

Gauge	Level	Compared with normal	24 hours	Distance
KillamuckyRiver gauge, Kilta	0.15 m	Normal	±0	12 km
Midleton Town ParkRiver gauge, Dungourney	0.27 m	Normal	−0.01 m	15 km
Dungourney BridgeRiver gauge, Dungourney	0.04 m	Normal	±0	17 km
Lisgoold BridgeRiver gauge, Owennacurra	0.07 m	Normal	±0	22 km
BalleaRiver gauge, Owenboy	0.21 m	Normal	±0	29 km
MogeelyRiver gauge, Bride (Waterford)	0.18 m	Normal	−0.01 m	30 km
Glen ParkRiver gauge, Glen	0.21 m	Normal	±0	32 km
BallincollyRiver gauge, Glen Tributary	−0.09 m	Low	±0	33 km

Questions and answers

What is the water level of Ballycotton today?

On 17 Oct 2026, 12:10 GMT+1, the water level was 2.32 m. Down 0.11 m over the last 24 hours.

Is Ballycotton rising or falling?

Down 0.11 m over the last 24 hours.

Is the level of Ballycotton normal?

The agency publishes no normal range for this gauge yet, so we show the trend only.

What is the highest water level ever recorded at Ballycotton?

The highest level on record is 4.98 m.

How often is this data updated?

The Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie) publishes a new reading every 15 minutes. This page refreshes within minutes of each update.

Where does this data come from?

The values come directly from the Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie), the official operator of this gauge, and are published under CC BY 4.0. We do not estimate or model live values.

For specialists

Station codes, datum, parameters, data quality and downloads

Operator: Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie)
Station code: opw:19068 (Agency page)
Coordinates: 51.82818, -8.00147 (WGS84)
Vertical datum: OD Malin Head OSGM15
Gauge zero: -2.177 m
Update interval: every 15 minutes
Licence: CC BY 4.0. Contains Irish Public Sector Information licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence (source waterlevel.ie - provided by the Office of Public Works)

Published series

Parameter	Last value	Time (UTC)	Quality
Water level	2.32 m	2026-10-17 11:10	Provisional

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How to cite

Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie): Ballycotton (opw:19068). Accessed October 17, 2026 via Nivelmap, https://nivelmap.com/en/ireland/cork/ballycotton

How we check values

Each reading is stored as published. We hold back values that jump faster than physically plausible and show the measurement time with every value.

Readings are provisional, can be delayed or wrong and are not a flood warning. Read the disclaimer