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The map of the Irish eclipse

On the evening of Wednesday, 12 August 2026 the whole island sees a very deep partial eclipse, and it deepens in a straight gradient from the north-east to the south-west: 93.7% of the Sun covered on the Louth coast, 97.1% in Co. Kerry. Every dot below is one of the 54 towns and cities in our dataset, shaded by its own computed figure — and none of them is inside the path of totality.

Map of eclipse obscuration, town by town

Map of the Republic of Ireland with the depth of the 12 August 2026 partial eclipse The 54 Irish towns and cities of our dataset plotted on a simple equirectangular projection, each coloured from pale gold to dark brown according to how much of the Sun the Moon covers at maximum — from 93.7% in the north-east to 97.1% in the south-west, in Tralee and Killarney. No locality is inside the path of totality. Northern Ireland is not part of this dataset and is not shown. ATLANTIC OCEAN IRISH SEA Northern Ireland (UK) — separate dataset, not shown Tralee · 97.1% at 19:12 Killarney · 97.1% at 19:13 Cork · 96.5% at 19:13 Carrigaline · 96.5% at 19:13 Mallow · 96.4% at 19:12 Cobh · 96.4% at 19:13 Midleton · 96.3% at 19:13 Ennis · 96.2% at 19:11 Shannon · 96.2% at 19:11 Limerick · 96.1% at 19:12 Galway · 96.0% at 19:10 Castlebar · 95.8% at 19:09 Dungarvan · 95.7% at 19:13 Ballina · 95.6% at 19:09 Clonmel · 95.6% at 19:12 Tramore · 95.4% at 19:12 Waterford · 95.3% at 19:12 Athlone · 95.1% at 19:10 Kilkenny · 95.1% at 19:11 Sligo · 95.0% at 19:09 Tullamore · 94.9% at 19:10 Portlaoise · 94.9% at 19:11 Longford · 94.8% at 19:10 Carlow · 94.8% at 19:11 Wexford · 94.8% at 19:12 Athy · 94.7% at 19:11 Enniscorthy · 94.7% at 19:12 Mullingar · 94.6% at 19:10 Kildare · 94.6% at 19:11 Newbridge · 94.5% at 19:11 Gorey · 94.5% at 19:11 Cavan · 94.4% at 19:09 Naas · 94.4% at 19:10 Arklow · 94.3% at 19:11 Maynooth · 94.2% at 19:10 Celbridge · 94.2% at 19:10 Leixlip · 94.2% at 19:10 Letterkenny · 94.1% at 19:07 Navan · 94.1% at 19:10 Ratoath · 94.1% at 19:10 Wicklow · 94.1% at 19:11 Ashbourne · 94.0% at 19:10 Dublin · 94.0% at 19:10 Bray · 94.0% at 19:10 Greystones-Delgany · 94.0% at 19:11 Drogheda · 93.9% at 19:10 Malahide · 93.9% at 19:10 Swords · 93.9% at 19:10 Portmarnock · 93.9% at 19:10 Laytown-Bettystown-Mornington-Donacarney · 93.8% at 19:10 Balbriggan · 93.8% at 19:10 Rush · 93.8% at 19:10 Skerries · 93.8% at 19:10 Dundalk · 93.7% at 19:09 Letterkenny · 94.1% Sligo · 95.0% Dundalk · 93.7% Galway · 96.0% Athlone · 95.1% Dublin · 94.0% Limerick · 96.1% Tralee · 97.1% Killarney · 97.1% Waterford · 95.3% Wexford · 94.8% Cork · 96.5% DEEPEST IN IRELAND 97.1% · Co. Kerry Tralee and Killarney, ringed below Still a partial eclipse: nowhere reaches 100%

This map is our own approximation. Each dot is one locality from our dataset, placed by a simple equirectangular projection and coloured by its computed obscuration — no coastline is drawn and this is not the official track of the Moon’s shadow. It cannot be: the path of totality does not touch Ireland at all. What the map does show honestly is the gradient — how the eclipse deepens towards the south-west — and where each town sits on it. For the shadow’s real track, see our Iceland section and the interactive map of the Spanish path.

Looking for Northern Ireland? It is on the same island but in a different country, and it belongs to a different dataset, so it is deliberately absent from this map. Belfast gets 93.1% of the Sun covered and has its own page in our United Kingdom section — Belfast.

Mind the hour: maximum falls between 19:07 and 19:13 (Irish Standard Time (IST, UTC+1)) with the Sun only 14.4–16.6° above the horizon. Pick a spot with a completely open view to the west-north-west.

How to read this map

Share of the Sun covered

The darker the dot, the more of the Sun disappears at maximum. The scale is stretched over the real range of the dataset — 93.7% to 97.1% — which is why a difference of three and a half points looks dramatic here: on the ground the whole country gets a deep partial.

The deepest points

Ringed dots mark the top of the ranking — Tralee and Killarney, at 97.1%. Deepest in Ireland, still not totality.

Every other dot

All 54 localities are plotted, and the labelled ones link straight to their page. The rest are in the county table below and in the full ranking.

The eclipse county by county

Range of obscuration across the localities we track in each county label, with the largest town of each as the link. Some settlements straddle two counties and the dataset labels them accordingly.

Obscuration by county label on 12 August 2026
County label Localities Sun covered Largest town
Kerry 2 97.1% Tralee (19:12)
Cork 5 96.3–96.5% Cork (19:13)
Clare 2 96.2% Ennis (19:11)
Limerick & Clare 1 96.1% Limerick (19:12)
Galway 1 96.0% Galway (19:10)
Mayo 2 95.6–95.8% Castlebar (19:09)
Waterford 2 95.4–95.7% Tramore (19:12)
Tipperary & Waterford 1 95.6% Clonmel (19:12)
Waterford & Kilkenny 1 95.3% Waterford (19:12)
Kilkenny 1 95.1% Kilkenny (19:11)
Westmeath & Roscommon 1 95.1% Athlone (19:10)
Sligo 1 95.0% Sligo (19:09)
Laois 1 94.9% Portlaoise (19:11)
Offaly 1 94.9% Tullamore (19:10)
Carlow & Laois 1 94.8% Carlow (19:11)
Longford 1 94.8% Longford (19:10)
Wexford 3 94.5–94.8% Wexford (19:12)
Kildare 7 94.2–94.7% Naas (19:10)
Westmeath 1 94.6% Mullingar (19:10)
Cavan 1 94.4% Cavan (19:09)
Wicklow 3 94.0–94.3% Greystones-Delgany (19:11)
Donegal 1 94.1% Letterkenny (19:07)
Meath 4 93.8–94.1% Navan (19:10)
Dublin & Meath 1 94.0% Dublin (19:10)
Wicklow & Dublin 1 94.0% Bray (19:10)
Dublin 6 93.8–93.9% Swords (19:10)
Louth & Meath 1 93.9% Drogheda (19:10)
Louth 1 93.7% Dundalk (19:09)

How this map was made, and what it is not

We drew no coastline. The 54 dots are the localities of our Irish dataset, projected equirectangularly: longitudes multiplied by the cosine of the mean latitude (0.596) so the country keeps roughly its real proportions, then scaled to fit. The circumstances behind each dot — percentage, times, Sun altitude — come from the same computation that feeds every locality page: JPL DE440s ephemerides, evaluated at each town’s own coordinates, with all times in Irish Standard Time (IST, UTC+1).

What this map is not: an official shadow track, an isoline chart, or a cloud-cover forecast. Ireland lies outside the path of totality entirely — the nearest place where the Sun is completely covered is Reykjavík, 1m 02s of totality about 1,494 km from Dublin, and then northern Spain. Wherever you watch from in Ireland, certified EN ISO 12312-2 glasses stay on for the entire event. How to check yours →

Circumstances computed for the coordinates of each Irish locality with JPL DE440s ephemerides — the same pipeline behind every other country on this site. All times are Irish Standard Time (IST, UTC+1), exactly as they appear on an Irish clock. No point in the Republic lies inside the path of totality: every figure on these pages is for a partial eclipse.