Ballinascarty flood alleviation works deferred until new year

Plans to carry out major road upgrading and flood alleviation works in the ancestral home of Henry Ford have been put off until after Christmas.

The work was scheduled to start in the village of Ballinascarty, Co Cork, in the next few days, but National Roads Authority (NRA) engineers have since decided they don’t want to disrupt pre-Christmas trade as it would entail potentially lengthy traffic delays on the N71.

The road around the village has been damaged by a number of floods in recent years, as have adjoining properties which suffered again from a deluge which put a number areas of Cork under several feet of water on June 28, 2012.