Plan a small step in war on flooding - Flood protection proposals

CORK CITY has a long and occasionally fraught relationship with the River Lee. 

The Lee drove the commerce on which the city’s wealth was built; it still does today, to a lesser degree. The river was the decisive factor in the location and growth of the city but it also has, occasionally, a nasty, destructive relationship with those who live or work along its banks.

In January 1789, a flood swept through the valley and a city bridge, completed months earlier, was swept away. It was quickly rebuilt and reopened the following September. In November 1853, St Patrick’s Bridge was swept away.