Lough Gur
- Area
- 0.71 km²
- Max depth
- 4 m
- Tonight
- 8°CHeavy rain · Wind 30 km/h S
Lough Gur is a lake at 72 m above sea level in County Limerick, Ireland, 0.71 km² in area and 1.7 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 72 m
- Length
- 1.7 km
- Shoreline
- 6.1 km
Lough Gur in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 6.1 km≈1½ h to walk around
Lough Gur 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 4 × 4 km
Lough Gur terrain and contours
5 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 Gur elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Lough Gur weather
Tonight · Heavy rain · 8°C (46°F) · 7.0 mm · Wind 30 km/h S
Lough Gur forecast for about 72 m.
- Tonight8°7.0 mm30 km/h S
- Sat8°15°11.0 mm48 km/h S
- Sun7°11°5.5 mm40 km/h W
- Mon9°16°6.7 mm47 km/h S
- Tue10°11°0.7 mm31 km/h W
- Wed10°14°0.3 mm21 km/h SW
- Thu11°13°6.7 mm33 km/h SE
- Fri4°11°2.1 mm15 km/h NW
- Sat4°10°1.8 mm21 km/h NW
- Sun1°9°0.2 mm16 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, 23:18 UTC.
Camping & parking near Lough Gur
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Lough Gur, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
0.7 km WSW
Slope
Share of the 4 × 4 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 97% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 0.1% of the 16 km² view
- Relief in view
- 100 m low point 57 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.
Wildlife seen nearby
Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 2 km; 54 species recorded in all.
Sightings per species 6
- European ash4
- Wall Pennywort4
- Common hawthorn3
- Common yarrow3
- Hart's-tongue fern3
- Garden Snail3
Where Lough Gur sits
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 2025 (scene 2025-08-12)
- 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)