Gortmackan water level

Name: Gortmackan 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, Stream, Galway, Ireland

Directions

Within the normal range

Water level

0.13m Down 0.03 m over the last 24 hours

Measured 17 Oct 2026, 18:45 GMT+1 (21 min ago)

History

7 days

Water level Top of normal rangeBottom of normal range

What this means

The gauge at Gortmackan reads 0.13 m, a normal level.

The usual range here runs from −0.05 m to 0.30 m.

The level is falling, down 0.03 m over the past 24 hours. Over the past 30 days it has moved between 0.13 m and 0.18 m.

Compared with the normal range the agency publishes for this gauge. How to read levels

Key numbers

Normal range: −0.05 m – 0.30 m
Highest on record: 1.15 m

Weather at the gauge

Rain in the last 3 days: 14 mm. Rain that falls upstream can take hours or days to show up at a river gauge.

17 Sat 12° -2° – Wind 12 km/h

18 Sun 13° 0° – Wind 10 km/h

19 Mon 12° 1° – Wind 16 km/h

20 Tue 15° 7° 12 mm, 69% Wind 29 km/h

21 Wed 10° 6° 1.8 mm, 59% Wind 26 km/h

22 Thu 11° 5° 2.4 mm, 88% Wind 17 km/h

23 Fri 10° 4° 1.0 mm, 80% Wind 27 km/h

Forecast: Open-Meteo

Sunrise 08:05 AM Sunset 06:36 PM Daylight 10 hr, 32 min First quarter 42%

Map

Other gauges on the Stream

Gauge	Level	Compared with normal	24 hours	Distance
Gort 1BTidal gauge, Stream	0.42 m	Normal	−0.01 m	22 km
PoulataggleTidal gauge, Stream	0.35 m	Normal	±0	22 km
FairyhillRiver gauge, Stream	0.36 m	Normal	−0.02 m	31 km
LysterfieldRiver gauge, Stream	0.18 m	Normal	−0.01 m	50 km
RaharaRiver gauge, Stream	0.14 m	Low	±0	51 km
Kiltoom StreamRiver gauge, Stream	0.29 m	No reference yet	±0	53 km
Carnagh EastRiver gauge, Stream	0.24 m	No reference yet	±0	54 km
Tinker's BridgeRiver gauge, Stream	0.04 m	Normal	±0	89 km
Scragh BogRiver gauge, Stream	0.49 m	Normal	−0.01 m	96 km

Nearby gauges

Gauge	Level	Compared with normal	24 hours	Distance
Aggard BridgeRiver gauge, Aggard	0.69 m	Normal	−0.02 m	7.9 km
CraughwellRiver gauge, Dunkellin	0.78 m	Normal	−0.07 m	8.0 km
RathgorginRiver gauge, Raford	0.75 m	Normal	−0.02 m	8.6 km
Rahasane TurloughLake, Dunkellin	1.69 m	Normal	+0.01 m	12 km
BallycahalanTidal gauge, Ballycalahan	0.43 m	Normal	−0.09 m	12 km
CaherfineskerRiver gauge, Lavally	0.90 m	Normal	−0.18 m	13 km
KilcolganRiver gauge, Dunkellin	0.82 m	Normal	+0.01 m	16 km
ClarinbridgeTidal gauge	0.74 m	Normal	−0.12 m	16 km

Questions and answers

What is the typical range for the Stream at Gortmackan?

The Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie) gives a typical range of −0.05 m to 0.30 m for this gauge.

What is the water level of Gortmackan today?

On 17 Oct 2026, 18:45 GMT+1, the water level was 0.13 m. Down 0.03 m over the last 24 hours.

Is Gortmackan rising or falling?

Down 0.03 m over the last 24 hours.

Is the level of Gortmackan normal?

Within the normal range. Compared with the normal range the agency publishes for this gauge.

What is the highest water level ever recorded at Gortmackan?

The highest level on record is 1.15 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:29020 (Agency page)
Coordinates: 53.18356, -8.64242 (WGS84)
Vertical datum: OD Malin Head OSGM15
Gauge zero: 54.583 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	0.13 m	2026-10-17 17:45	Provisional

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Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie): Gortmackan (opw:29020). Accessed October 17, 2026 via Nivelmap, https://nivelmap.com/en/ireland/galway/gortmackan

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