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Flash Floods After Deluge

A number of homes were flooded in Bridgetown and Ennistymon and traffic was disrupted on a number of roads around the county as a result of Tuesday morning's deluge.

Fortunately the flash floods, which followed from the half inch of rain that fell in a matter of hours, had subsided by Tuesday evening and everything was back to normal.

However, three families in Bridgetown and one in Ennistymon have been left to count the cost of the heavy rain as their properties were damaged by flooding. The houses on the outskirts of Sourth East Clare village were flooded to a depth of over a foot when water cascaded off the land and Killaloe Fire Brigade was called to deal with the emergency.

In Ennistymon, Bill and May Chapman's two hundred year old Connell's Cottage home at Deerpark, was flooded to a depth of two feet when a steam to the rear of their home burst its banks. The local fire brigade had to pump out the house.

While there was minor flooding on some roads and a number of motorists ran into difficulties when their cars stalled, Gardai reported no major problems.

A considerable amount of farmland, particularly in the North Clare area was also hit by the flooding, creating problems with foddering livestock for some farmers.
