
Lough Derg
- Area
- 8.53 km²
- Max depth
- 3 m
- Tonight
- 6°CRain · Wind 26 km/h S
Lough Derg is a lake at 141 m above sea level in County Donegal, Ireland, 8.53 km² in area and 4.6 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 141 m
- Length
- 4.6 km
- Shoreline
- 30.6 km
Lough Derg in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 30.6 km≈7¾ h to walk around
Lough Derg 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 6.6 × 6.6 km
Lough Derg terrain and contours
10 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
Lough Derg elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Lough Derg weather
Tonight · Rain · 6°C (43°F) · 3.9 mm · Wind 26 km/h S
Lough Derg forecast for about 141 m.
- Tonight6°3.9 mm26 km/h S
- Sat7°11°24.9 mm54 km/h W
- Sun6°10°2.7 mm44 km/h W
- Mon6°14°20.4 mm36 km/h SW
- Tue8°9°11.5 mm40 km/h W
- Wed9°11°0.6 mm22 km/h W
- Thu9°10°6.1 mm26 km/h SE
- Fri5°11°3.5 mm11 km/h W
- Sat3°8°3.9 mm15 km/h W
- Sun4°8°0.5 mm15 km/h NW
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:19 UTC.
Camping & parking near Lough Derg
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Lough Derg, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
1.1 km SE
Slope
Share of the 6.6 × 6.6 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 97% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 0.0% of the 44 km² view
- Relief in view
- 228 m low point 111 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Where Lough Derg sits
- Region
- County Donegal5Ireland107Europe2,143
Nearby places
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Data sources
- Terrain
- Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-08-24)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Camping & parking, Geometry
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Wildlife
- iNaturalist community observations, counts only
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)