Killashee water level

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

River gauge, Broadfield, Kildare, Ireland

Directions

Normal for mid-October

Water level

0.18m Down 0.02 m over the last 24 hours

Measured Oct 17, 2026, 01:45 AM GMT+1 (29 min ago)

History

7 days 30 days 1 year Years compared

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Water level Normal range (10–90 %)

What this means

Water levels are unremarkable at Killashee, where the gauge shows 0.18 m.

That puts it 0.02 m below the median of 0.20 m for mid-October, based on 10 years of readings. A year ago it stood at 0.17 m (+0.01 m).

It is still going down, by 0.02 m over the past 24 hours. The 30-day range is 0.18 m – 0.25 m.

Autumn rain usually starts to lift rivers again after the summer low.

Compared with 10 years of daily readings for this time of year. How to read levels

Key numbers

Median for this date: 0.20 m0.02 m below the median for this date
Normal for this date: 0.11 m – 0.28 m8 years in 10 fall in this range (10 years of records)
Same day last year: 0.17 m+0.01 m
Lowest and highest in 30 days: 0.18 m – 0.25 m
Lowest and highest in 12 months: 0.17 m – 0.58 m
Highest on record: 0.79 m

For anglers and canoeists

This is an ordinary level for the river: most put-ins, beats and weirs behave as they usually do.

Many angling and canoe clubs check gauges like this one before heading out.

Weather at the gauge

Rain in the last 3 days: 12 mm. Rain upstream usually reaches a river gauge after hours to days.

17 Sat 12° 1° – Wind 9 km/h

18 Sun 12° 1° – Wind 7 km/h

19 Mon 11° 1° 1.8 mm Wind 18 km/h

20 Tue 13° 9° – Wind 17 km/h

21 Wed 11° 5° 32 mm, 56% Wind 36 km/h

22 Thu 10° 4° 1.2 mm, 44% Wind 20 km/h

23 Fri 9° 6° 18 mm, 74% Wind 40 km/h

Forecast: Open-Meteo

Sunrise 07:57 AM Sunset 06:28 PM Daylight 10h 32m First quarter 36 %

Map

Nearby gauges

Gauge	Level	Compared with normal	24 hours	Distance
TipperRiver gauge, Morell	0.22 m	Normal	0.00 m	3.3 km
HaynestownRiver gauge	0.55 m	Normal		5.8 km
HazelhatchRiver gauge	0.23 m	Normal		18 km
RathanganRiver gauge, Slate	0.38 m	Normal		22 km
LeixlipRiver gauge, Ryewater	0.32 m	Normal		23 km
Pass BridgeRiver gauge, Barrow	0.97 m	Normal		27 km
ClonbullogeRiver gauge, Figile	0.20 m	Normal		28 km
Clonee WeirRiver gauge, Tolka	0.21 m	Normal		29 km

Questions and answers

How does the Broadfield at Killashee compare with last year?

It is 0.01 m higher than on the same day last year, when the reading was 0.17 m.

What is the record level at Killashee?

The highest reading on record is 0.79 m.

How often is Killashee updated?

Several times an hour. New readings from Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie) appear here as they arrive. Latest: Oct 17, 2026, 01:45 AM GMT+1.

What is the water level of Killashee today?

On Oct 17, 2026, 01:45 AM GMT+1, the water level was 0.18 m. Down 0.02 m over the last 24 hours.

Is Killashee rising or falling?

Down 0.02 m over the last 24 hours. Down 0.03 m over the last 7 days.

Is the level of Killashee normal?

Normal for mid-October. Compared with 10 years of daily readings for this time of year.

What is the highest water level ever recorded at Killashee?

The highest level on record is 0.79 m on –.

For specialists

Station codes, datum, parameters, data quality and downloads

Operator: Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie)
Station code: opw:09108 (Agency page)
Coordinates: 53.19460, -6.67241 (WGS84)
Vertical datum: OD Malin Head OSGM15
Gauge zero: 105.934 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 `stage`	0.18 m	2026-10-17 00:45	Provisional

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Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie): Killashee (opw:09108). Accessed October 17, 2026 via Nivelmap, https://nivelmap.com/en/ireland/kildare/killashee

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