Déjà vu for Clonakilty as town starts mopping up

Clonakilty reopened for business just hours after floods again ran through the centre of the town.

The high tide coming into Clonakilty Bay, kept there by very strong winds and driving rain, meant water rushed up Strand Rd, onto Clarke St and filled Croppy Quay like a basin.

Humphrey Deegan, a town councillor, watched on Tuesday night as water moved up Strand Rd and threatened his hotel, the Imperial. He was cutting timber to fit into one of the doorways and barely had it in place when the water arrived. “In the space of five or six minutes, it came up a foot-and-a-half,” he said.