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Wolfe Tone Bridge water level

Estuary gauge, Corrib Estuary., Galway, Ireland

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Water level

1.56m Down 0.15 m over the last 24 hours

2 3 4 5 Highest onrecord 4.68 m

History

1.61.71.8mOct 16Oct 16Oct 16Oct 17Oct 171.61.71.8mOct 16Oct 16Oct 17
Water level

What this means

The Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie) has the Corrib Estuary. at Wolfe Tone Bridge at 1.56 m. There is no published reference for this estuary yet, so we can't say whether that is high or low for the season.

It is still going down, by 0.15 m over the past 24 hours. The 30-day range is 1.53 m – 1.85 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
4.68 m

Weather at the gauge

Rain in the last 3 days: 16 mm. Rain that falls upstream can take hours or days to show up at a river gauge.

17 Sat 13° 6° – Wind 9 km/h
18 Sun 13° 5° – Wind 8 km/h
19 Mon 12° 1° – Wind 10 km/h
20 Tue 14° 7° 3.0 mm, 53% Wind 21 km/h
21 Wed 11° 6° 15 mm, 56% Wind 33 km/h
22 Thu 11° 4° 4.2 mm, 59% Wind 19 km/h
23 Fri 10° 5° 14 mm, 94% Wind 47 km/h

Forecast: Open-Meteo

Sunrise 08:07 AM Sunset 06:38 PM Daylight 10 hr, 31 min First quarter 42%

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Nearby gauges

Gauge Level Compared with normal 24 hours Distance
Galway Barrage D/SRiver gauge, Corrib 1.46 m Normal −0.04 m 0.7 km
Galway BarrageRiver gauge, Corrib 0.20 m Normal −0.03 m 0.9 km
Quincentennial BridgeRiver gauge, Corrib 0.66 m Normal −0.03 m 1.4 km
DanganRiver gauge, Corrib 0.26 m Normal −0.03 m 3.2 km
AnglighamLake, L Corrib 0.76 m Normal −0.04 m 5.4 km
ClarinbridgeTidal gauge 0.74 m Normal −0.13 m 13 km
Annaghdown PierTidal gauge, L. Corrib 0.75 m Normal −0.02 m 13 km
KilcolganRiver gauge, Dunkellin 0.82 m Normal +0.01 m 14 km

Questions and answers

What is the water level of Wolfe Tone Bridge today?

On 17 Oct 2026, 19:30 GMT+1, the water level was 1.56 m. Down 0.15 m over the last 24 hours.

Is Wolfe Tone Bridge rising or falling?

Down 0.15 m over the last 24 hours.

Is the level of Wolfe Tone Bridge 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 Wolfe Tone Bridge?

The highest level on record is 4.68 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.

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Station codes, datum, parameters, data quality and downloads
Operator
Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie)
Station code
opw:30061 (Agency page)
Coordinates
53.26998, -9.05567 (WGS84)
Vertical datum
OD Malin Head OSGM15
Gauge zero
-0.823 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

ParameterLast valueTime (UTC)Quality
Water level 1.56 m 2026-10-17 18:30 Provisional

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How to cite

Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie): Wolfe Tone Bridge (opw:30061). Accessed October 17, 2026 via Nivelmap, https://nivelmap.com/en/ireland/galway/wolfe-tone-bridge

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