Deepest lakes & reservoirs in South West Ireland by maximum depth (ft)
The estimated greatest depth of the water in a lake can be measured at the lake’s normal elevation. If the water volume and surface area of a lake are known, an estimate of the lake’s average depth can be calculated:Water volume ÷ Surface Area = Average Depth
Example: 1,000,000 acre-feet ÷ 20,000 acres = 50 feet average depth.
You can find many of the the world’s deepest lakes on LakeLubbers. If you sort the list, you will find the (maximum depth of) the shallowest lakes in our database. Note: For some lakes, lake depth data is unknown, so this table may display fewer lakes than the total 2 articles we have published for South West Ireland lakes.
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Below are lakes within Ireland > South West Ireland > Compared by maximum depth in feet. This list does not represent all lakes in South West Ireland, only the 2 South West Ireland lake articles we have published on the LakeLubbers website.
Lake name  |
Max depth in feet |
Lake description |
|---|---|---|
| Lakes of Killarney, Ireland (Ireland, South West Ireland) |
250 ft | Also known as Killarney Lakes, Lough Leane, Lower Lake, Muckross Lake, Middle Lake, Upper Lake For more than 250 years, the beauty of Killarney Lakes has attracted royalty, world leaders, literary figures and now more than one and a half million… |
| Lough Currane (Ireland, South West Ireland) |
110 ft | Lough Currane is a pristine body of water located in County Kerry, the heart of Ireland’s lush South West tourism region. The province is best known f… |
