Updated: 10pm Tuesday 2nd January:
Sligo County Council road update 10pm Tuesday
Strong winds have resulted in fallen trees throughout the county with a number of roads blocked. Water levels are also rising very quickly with low lying and coastal roads in particular danger, motorists and other road users asked to take extreme care.
Sligo County Council Roads and Fire Services crews have been deployed around the county removing fallen trees and telegraph poles, closing roads and arranging diversions. This work will continue and the public are asked to remain vigilant as the danger of falling trees remains, and the combination of high tides, storm surge and heavy rainfall could lead to further flooding in low lying and coastal areas. High tides are due at 6.15am and 5.45pm tomorrow, Wednesday when risk of flooding will be greatest.
Update 10pm Tuesday
Sligo Town and Environs
- Gibraltar Road remains closed due to flooding but Mardyke, Cartron now passable
Sligo County
- Gurteen to Ballaghadereen blocked 2 miles from Gurteen
- Fallen trees on Culfadda to Keash Rd, road blocked
- Fallen tree at Carn School, Gurteen
- Fallen tree Lisrush-Culfadda Rd, road blocked
- Fallen trees and cables on L4303 Buninnadden to Quarryfield crossroads
- Monasteraden to Cloonloo road blocked
- Road CR 632A blocked at Annaghowan Riverstown
- Templehouse to five-cross roads blocked
Updated 8:15pm Tuesday 2nd January:
There are nearly 600 more homes now without power in the Manorhamilton area of Leitrim bringing to over 4000 the number of properties in the North West now without power.
Sligo County Council says a Bus Eireann bus had to be evacuated this evening on the Gibraltar road. The road is now closed as is the Mardyke.
8:15pm update from Sligo County Council:
STORM ELEANOR UPDATE 8.15PM TUESDAY:
Strong winds have resulted in fallen trees throughout the county with a number of roads blocked. Water levels are also rising very quickly with low lying and coastal roads in particular danger. Gibraltar Road Sligo flooded, a Bus Eireann Bus evacuated and road closed
Details:
- Gibraltar Road and Mardyke, Cartron Sligo flooded, closed and diversions in place
- Tree cleared on N59 Sligo-Ballina Rd at Beltra
- Tree down on N17 between Tubbecurry and Curry but road passable
- Tree cleared from Boyle to Ballymote Road at Keash
- Trees cleared from Ballymote to Gurteen road
- Fallen trees on Culfadda to Keash Rd, road blocked
- Fallen tree at Carn School, Gurteen
- Monasteraden to Cloonloo road blocked
- Boyle to Gurteen road blocked at Cloonloo
- Riverstown to Drumfin road blocked at Coopers Hill
- Templehouse to five-cross roads blocked
Updated 7:30pm Tuesday 2nd January:
Storm Eleanor has hit the North West harder than feared with over 3000 homes already without power.
Met Eireann has upgraded the alert to orange for wind in all of Connaught and there is a status orange rain warning in place for Connaught and Donegal. You can get further details on the Met Eireann website: http://www.met.ie/nationalwarnings/default.asp.
There are significant outages in Enniscrone in west Sligo and in the Tubbercurry, Ballymote and Gurteen areas of south Sligo, with Collooney and the Sligo Leitrim border of Arigna and in the Drumshanbo area also affected.
There are also outages in the Buncrana area in north Donegal.
The ESB says the worst affected areas are south and west Sligo where over 2000 properties are now without power in the greater Tubbercurry Ballymote and Gurteen areas.
1600 properties are without power in Enniscrone with over 1200 more residents without power in Ballina.
The ESB hopes to have power restored tonight but work will depend on the progress of the storm.
You can get updates from the ESB’s powercheck website here: https://www.esb.ie/esb-networks/powercheck/
And on the Sligo County Council website: http://www.sligococo.ie/Emergency/
Please also keep up to date on our facebook and twitter pages:
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Around the rest of the country, Galway city centre has been hit by serious flooding as a result of Storm Eleanor.
The docks area of the city is impassable due to rising flood waters, and Salthill Prom has been closed.
In County Cork, emergency services are dealing with flooding in Bantry town.
There’s also reports of flooding in Middleton and on Union Quay in Cork city.
Met Eireann’s reported gusts of almost 140 kilometres per hour at Mace Head in Co Galway.
A status Orange alert remains in place for much of the country as the storm moves across Ireland this evening.
