Funding approved for Roche's Point flood defence project

The package of almost €70,000 will cover the cost of the design and construction of a toe wall at Roche’s Point in Cork Harbour

High seas off Roches Point at the entrance to Cork harbour during Storm Diana in 2011. Picture: Denis Minihane

Funding has been approved for a coastal defence project in Cork Harbour to help protect historic coast guard cottages on what is one of the country’s most exposed headlands.

The near €70,000 funding package for the works at the Roche’s Point will cover the cost of the detailed design and construction of a toe wall — a low reinforcing wall — which will be built along the base of an existing sea wall at Roche's Point, at the mouth of Cork Harbour.