Poulaphouca Reservoir
- Area
- 19 km²
- Tonight
- 6°CCloudy · Wind 23 km/h S
Poulaphouca Reservoir is a lake at 182 m above sea level in Ireland, 19 km² in area and 10.9 km long.
All facts
- Surface elevation
- 182 m
- Length
- 10.9 km
- Shoreline
- 58.6 km
Poulaphouca Reservoir in numbers
Shoreline from OpenStreetMap.
- Shoreline
- 58.6 km
Poulaphouca Reservoir 3D map
Drag to orbit · click, then scroll to zoom (or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll) · One finger scrolls the page · two fingers orbit and zoom · 12.9 × 12.9 km
Poulaphouca Reservoir terrain and contours
20 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.
Poulaphouca Reservoir elevation profile
West → east through the centre
Poulaphouca Reservoir weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 6°C (43°F) · 1.6 mm · Wind 23 km/h S
Poulaphouca Reservoir forecast for about 182 m.
- Tonight6°1.6 mm23 km/h S
- Today7°13°14.9 mm46 km/h S
- Sun6°10°3.5 mm41 km/h W
- Mon9°15°11.9 mm41 km/h S
- Tue8°9°2.5 mm37 km/h W
- Wed9°12°1.2 mm26 km/h SW
- Thu10°11°2.3 mm32 km/h S
- Fri9°13°16.5 mm26 km/h SE
- Sat4°8°1.2 mm16 km/h W
- Sun2°6°0.3 mm19 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 Poulaphouca Reservoir
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Poulaphouca Reservoir, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
1.3 km WNW
All mapped places 3
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Parking | 1.3 km WNW |
| Boden's WellParking | 1.8 km NE |
| Parking | 1.9 km WSW |
Slope
Share of the 12.9 × 12.9 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mostly gentle: 93% of the view is under 15°.
- Steeper than 30°
- 0.0% of the 166 km² view
- Relief in view
- 585 m low point 116 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.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 6.4 km of Poulaphouca Reservoir.
Summit list 7
- 1Lugnagun446 m 3.5 km NE
- 2Black Hill602 m 5.1 km E
- 3Moanbane703 m 5.1 km SE
- 4Silsean698 m 5.2 km SE
- 5Woodend Hill356 m 5.5 km NE
- 6Sorrel Hill600 m 5.6 km ENE
- 7Slieveroe332 m 5.8 km NW
Where Poulaphouca Reservoir sits
Nearby places
Poulaphouca Reservoir downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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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 2025-04-09)
- 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)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Panorama
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © 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.
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)