Curraghboy water level

Name: Curraghboy 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, Cross, Roscommon, Ireland

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Latest reading

Water level

0.17m Steady over the last 24 hours

Measured 17 Oct 2026, 08:15 GMT+1 (22 min ago)

History

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Water level

What this means

The latest river level reported for Curraghboy is 0.17 m. There is no published reference for this river yet, so we can't say whether that is high or low for the season.

It has barely moved over the past 24 hours. Over the past 30 days it has moved between 0.16 m and 0.17 m.

Over the past seven days the change adds up to +0.01 m.

The agency publishes no normal range for this gauge yet, so we show the trend only. How to read levels

Key numbers

Same day last year: 0.31 m−0.14 m
Lowest and highest in 30 days: 0.16 m – 0.17 m
Lowest and highest in 12 months: 0.16 m – 0.80 m

On the river at Curraghboy

There is no published typical range for this gauge yet, so anglers and canoeists are best guided by the trend.

Flood warnings for the area come from the OPW and Met Éireann.

Weather at the gauge

Rain in the last 3 days: 12 mm. Rain that falls upstream can take hours or days to show up at a river gauge.

17 Sat 12° 1° – Wind 10 km/h

18 Sun 12° 3° – Wind 8 km/h

19 Mon 12° 2° – Wind 12 km/h

20 Tue 14° 7° 0.6 mm, 43% Wind 24 km/h

21 Wed 10° 5° 21 mm, 39% Wind 37 km/h

22 Thu 10° 3° 2.4 mm, 63% Wind 19 km/h

23 Fri 8° 4° 15 mm, 79% Wind 40 km/h

Forecast: Open-Meteo

Sunrise 08:03 AM Sunset 06:34 PM Daylight 10 hr, 31 min First quarter 38%

Map

Other gauges on the Cross

Gauge	Level	Compared with normal	24 hours	Distance
AtteaghRiver gauge, Cross	0.22 m	Normal	±0	3.7 km

Nearby gauges

Gauge	Level	Compared with normal	24 hours	Distance
LysterfieldRiver gauge, Stream	0.19 m	Normal	±0	3.6 km
RaharaRiver gauge, Stream	0.14 m	Low	±0	5.4 km
Hodson's BayLake, L. Ree	2.22 m	Normal	+0.01 m	8.1 km
DerrycahillRiver gauge, Suck	1.10 m	Normal	+0.05 m	11 km
Athlone Weir U/SRiver gauge, Shannon	2.55 m	Normal	+0.01 m	13 km
AthloneRiver gauge, Shannon	2.61 m	Normal	+0.05 m	13 km
RookwoodRiver gauge, Suck	0.93 m	Normal	+0.06 m	15 km
BellagillRiver gauge, Suck	1.20 m	Normal	+0.12 m	16 km

Questions and answers

Is the Cross at Curraghboy higher than last year?

No, it is 0.14 m lower than on the same day last year, when the reading was 0.31 m.

Is the river level the same as the depth of the water?

No. The reading is measured from a fixed zero mark at the gauge, so 0.17 m on the gauge does not mean the water is that deep.

What is the water level of Curraghboy today?

On 17 Oct 2026, 08:15 GMT+1, the water level was 0.17 m. Steady over the last 24 hours.

Is Curraghboy rising or falling?

Steady over the last 24 hours. Up 0.01 m over the last 7 days.

Is the level of Curraghboy normal?

The agency publishes no normal range for this gauge yet, so we show the trend only.

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:26407 (Agency page)
Coordinates: 53.47824, -8.10818 (WGS84)
Vertical datum: OD Malin Head OSGM15
Gauge zero: 59.513 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	0.17 m	2026-10-17 07:15	Provisional

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How to cite

Office of Public Works (waterlevel.ie): Curraghboy (opw:26407). Accessed October 17, 2026 via Nivelmap, https://nivelmap.com/en/ireland/roscommon/curraghboy

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