Ballyard water level

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

Estuary gauge, Lee Estuary, Kerry, Ireland

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Latest reading

Water level

1.42m Down 0.32 m over the last 24 hours

Measured 17 Oct 2026, 05:30 GMT+1 (26 min ago)

History

Not enough readings for a chart yet. History builds up with every update.

What this means

The Lee Estuary at Ballyard reads 1.42 m as of 17 Oct 2026, 05:30 GMT+1. The agency publishes no normal range or warning level for this estuary yet, so there is nothing to judge the number against.

It has dropped 0.32 m over the past 24 hours. In the last month it has stayed between 1.42 m and 2.04 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: 4.48 m

Weather at the gauge

Rain in the last 3 days: 15 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 14° 5° – Wind 9 km/h

19 Mon 13° 2° – Wind 8 km/h

20 Tue 14° 6° 8.7 mm, 61% Wind 23 km/h

21 Wed 10° 7° 12 mm, 82% Wind 43 km/h

22 Thu 12° 6° 2.5 mm, 67% Wind 23 km/h

23 Fri 9° 6° 33 mm, 88% Wind 39 km/h

Forecast: Open-Meteo

Sunrise 08:08 AM Sunset 06:42 PM Daylight 10 hr, 35 min First quarter 37%

Map

Other gauges on the Lee Estuary

Gauge	Level	Compared with normal	24 hours	Distance
BlennervilleEstuary gauge, Lee Estuary	0.69 m	No reference yet	−0.75 m	1.7 km
Pope’s QuayEstuary gauge, Lee Estuary	1.76 m	No reference yet	−1.38 m	94 km
St Patrick’s Quay (East)Estuary gauge, Lee Estuary	3.61 m	No reference yet	−0.05 m	94 km
Tivoli DocksEstuary gauge, Lee Estuary	2.57 m	No reference yet	−1.22 m	98 km

Nearby gauges

Gauge	Level	Compared with normal	24 hours	Distance
Spring Water LaneTidal gauge, Lissardboola	0.31 m	Normal	−0.02 m	1.8 km
Manor WestTidal gauge, Ballybeggan	0.21 m	Normal	−0.02 m	2.5 km
LislooseTidal gauge, Balloonagh	0.18 m	Normal	±0	3.0 km
Oakpark RoadTidal gauge, Big (Kerry)	0.13 m	Normal	−0.02 m	3.3 km
BallyseedyTidal gauge, Lee (Kerry)	0.29 m	Normal	−0.02 m	4.8 km
Riverside CloseRiver gauge, Brick	0.56 m	Normal	−0.02 m	9.3 km
Abbeydorney D/SRiver gauge, Brick	0.16 m	Normal	−0.01 m	9.5 km
RivervilleRiver gauge, Maine	0.82 m	Normal	−0.06 m	12 km

Questions and answers

What is the water level of Ballyard today?

On 17 Oct 2026, 05:30 GMT+1, the water level was 1.42 m. Down 0.32 m over the last 24 hours.

Is Ballyard rising or falling?

Down 0.32 m over the last 24 hours.

Is the level of Ballyard 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 Ballyard?

The highest level on record is 4.48 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:23063 (Agency page)
Coordinates: 52.26277, -9.71196 (WGS84)
Vertical datum: OD Malin Head OSGM15
Gauge zero: -1.313 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	1.42 m	2026-10-17 04:30	Provisional

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How to cite

Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie): Ballyard (opw:23063). Accessed October 17, 2026 via Nivelmap, https://nivelmap.com/en/ireland/kerry/ballyard

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