Victoria Bridge water level

Name: Victoria Bridge 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, Fergus, Clare, Ireland

Directions

Within the normal range

Water level

1.63m Down 0.02 m over the last 24 hours

Measured 17 Oct 2026, 22:00 GMT+1 (1 hour ago)

History

7 days

Water level Top of normal rangeBottom of normal range

What this means

The gauge at Victoria Bridge reads 1.63 m, a normal level.

The usual range here runs from 0.85 m to 1.66 m.

The level is falling, down 0.02 m over the past 24 hours. Over the past 30 days it has moved between 1.63 m and 1.66 m.

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

Key numbers

Normal range: 0.85 m – 1.66 m
Highest on record: 2.53 m

Weather at the gauge

Rain in the last 3 days: 18 mm. Rain that falls upstream can take hours or days to show up at a river gauge.

17 Sat 13° 3° – Wind 11 km/h

18 Sun 13° 4° – Wind 6 km/h

19 Mon 13° 3° – Wind 13 km/h

20 Tue 14° 7° 13 mm, 75% Wind 29 km/h

21 Wed 11° 7° 1.3 mm, 69% Wind 21 km/h

22 Thu 12° 5° 5.3 mm, 87% Wind 15 km/h

23 Fri 11° 4° 2.8 mm, 97% Wind 27 km/h

Forecast: Open-Meteo

Sunrise 08:06 AM Sunset 06:38 PM Daylight 10 hr, 33 min First quarter 44%

Map

Other gauges on the Fergus

Gauge	Level	Compared with normal	24 hours	Distance
Knox's BridgeEstuary gauge, Fergus	1.18 m	No reference yet	−0.26 m	1.2 km
Doora BridgeEstuary gauge, Fergus	1.76 m	No reference yet	−0.60 m	1.9 km
BallycoreyRiver gauge, Fergus	1.08 m	Normal	±0	2.6 km
Clarecastle BridgeRiver gauge, Fergus	2.81 m	No reference yet	−0.54 m	4.2 km
Corrofin FergusRiver gauge, Fergus	1.07 m	Normal	−0.10 m	12 km

Nearby gauges

Gauge	Level	Compared with normal	24 hours	Distance
Inch Bridge ClaureenRiver gauge, Claureen	0.30 m	Normal	−0.07 m	4.0 km
CarnellyRiver gauge, Manus	0.32 m	Normal	±0	5.7 km
Owenogarney Railway BridgeRiver gauge, Owenogarney	0.79 m	Normal	−0.02 m	20 km
EnnistimonRiver gauge, Inagh	0.59 m	Normal	−0.08 m	23 km
Gort 1BTidal gauge, Stream	0.41 m	Normal	−0.01 m	24 km
PoulataggleTidal gauge, Stream	0.35 m	Normal	±0	24 km
KillafeenTidal gauge, Owendaiulloeg	0.90 m	Normal	−0.09 m	24 km
RussaunTidal gauge, Beagh	0.54 m	Normal	−0.02 m	27 km

Questions and answers

What is the typical range for the Fergus at Victoria Bridge?

The Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie) gives a typical range of 0.85 m to 1.66 m for this gauge.

What is the water level of Victoria Bridge today?

On 17 Oct 2026, 22:00 GMT+1, the water level was 1.63 m. Down 0.02 m over the last 24 hours.

Is Victoria Bridge rising or falling?

Down 0.02 m over the last 24 hours.

Is the level of Victoria Bridge 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 Victoria Bridge?

The highest level on record is 2.53 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:27023 (Agency page)
Coordinates: 52.84856, -8.99084 (WGS84)
Vertical datum: OD Malin Head OSGM15
Gauge zero: 2.969 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	1.63 m	2026-10-17 21:00	Provisional

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Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie): Victoria Bridge (opw:27023). Accessed October 17, 2026 via Nivelmap, https://nivelmap.com/en/ireland/clare/victoria-bridge

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