Portrane flooding?

mloc123

Looking for some local knowledge here... Does anyone know if portrane, burrow road area has flooded in living memory?

I assume that it could potentially if the estuary was to swell from very heavy rainfall and or high tide?

Wishbone Ash

mloc123 wrote: »

Looking for some local knowledge here... Does anyone know if portrane, burrow road area has flooded in living memory?

I assume that it could potentially if the estuary was to swell from very heavy rainfall and or high tide?

I don't recall the Burrow Road flooding as such but the area around Piper's/The Brook was flooded a few years ago. Sea erosion would be a more critical factor in the Burrow. It seems to be cyclical though as it was a hot topic of conversation in the mid 1990's but I don't seem hear much about it in the last few years.

mloc123

Thanks.. we were looking at a house, which has been up for sale for years now... and my concern is that it is a flood risk more than erosion risk. I found the Fingal flood risk assessment report and it is marked as a 1% flood risk, there is a mark nearby on the map of historical flooding also... which has ruled the house out now in my mind.

Sleepy

Sea Erosion would still be a hot topic locally (it was raised in the Dail recently too). In under a year there's been a couple of feet of land washed away from coast behind Pipers!