Pope’s Quay water level

Name: Pope’s Quay 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, Cork, Ireland

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Latest reading

Water level

3.24m Up 0.72 m over the last 24 hours

Measured 18 Oct 2026, 00:00 GMT+1 (12 min ago)

History

7 days

Water level

What this means

The latest water level reported for Pope’s Quay is 3.24 m. There is no published reference for this estuary yet, so we can't say whether that is high or low for the season.

The water is rising: up 0.72 m over the past 24 hours. Over the past 30 days it has moved between 1.49 m and 4.01 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: 5.57 m

Weather at the gauge

Rain in the last 3 days: 9.9 mm. Rain that falls upstream can take hours or days to show up at a river gauge.

17 Sat 14° 5° – Wind 9 km/h

18 Sun 14° 6° – Wind 7 km/h

19 Mon 12° 5° 0.3 mm, 47% Wind 13 km/h

20 Tue 15° 9° 14 mm, 75% Wind 30 km/h

21 Wed 11° 7° 1.0 mm, 59% Wind 31 km/h

22 Thu 14° 8° 1.0 mm, 86% Wind 18 km/h

23 Fri 10° 6° 8.6 mm, 67% Wind 33 km/h

Forecast: Open-Meteo

Sunrise 08:02 AM Sunset 06:38 PM Daylight 10 hr, 36 min First quarter 44%

Map

Other gauges on the Lee Estuary

Gauge	Level	Compared with normal	24 hours	Distance
St Patrick’s Quay (East)Estuary gauge, Lee Estuary	5.08 m	No reference yet	+1.19 m	0.7 km
Tivoli DocksEstuary gauge, Lee Estuary	3.83 m	No reference yet	+0.70 m	5.0 km
BallyardEstuary gauge, Lee Estuary	1.57 m	No reference yet	+0.11 m	94 km
BlennervilleEstuary gauge, Lee Estuary	1.50 m	No reference yet	+0.58 m	95 km

Nearby gauges

Gauge	Level	Compared with normal	24 hours	Distance
Blackpool Retail ParkRiver gauge, Bride (Cork)	0.15 m	Normal	±0	1.7 km
Glen ParkRiver gauge, Glen	0.21 m	Normal	±0	2.0 km
Waterworks WeirRiver gauge, Lee	0.07 m	Normal	−0.90 m	2.6 km
County HallRiver gauge, Curragheen	1.01 m	Normal	−0.51 m	2.6 km
BallincollyRiver gauge, Glen Tributary	−0.09 m	Low	±0	2.7 km
Glennamought BridgeRiver gauge, Glen Tributary	0.39 m	Normal	±0	3.1 km
Carrigrohane BridgeRiver gauge, Curragheen	0.78 m	Normal	±0	4.8 km
Gothic BridgeRiver gauge, Blarney	0.12 m	Low	−0.01 m	6.5 km

Questions and answers

What is the water level of Pope’s Quay today?

On 18 Oct 2026, 00:00 GMT+1, the water level was 3.24 m. Up 0.72 m over the last 24 hours.

Is Pope’s Quay rising or falling?

Up 0.72 m over the last 24 hours.

Is the level of Pope’s Quay 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 Pope’s Quay?

The highest level on record is 5.57 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:19163 (Agency page)
Coordinates: 51.90100, -8.47351 (WGS84)
Vertical datum: OD Malin Head OSGM15
Gauge zero: -2.943 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	3.24 m	2026-10-17 23:00	Provisional

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How to cite

Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie): Pope’s Quay (opw:19163). Accessed October 17, 2026 via Nivelmap, https://nivelmap.com/en/ireland/cork/popes-quay

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