Flood Archive
A record of significant flood events in Ireland. Understanding what happened
before helps us prepare for what comes next.
Severe
October 2023
– January 2024
Winter 2023–2024 Multi-Storm Flooding
📍 Cork · Lee / Bandon / South Cork
The winter of 2023–24 brought a succession of named Atlantic storms that caused repeated and overlapping flooding across Ireland. Storms Babet, Ciarán, Debi, Elin, Fergus, and Gerr…
4,500
Properties
€250M
Est. damage
90
Days
Catastrophic
December 2015
– January 2016
Winter 2015–2016 Irish Floods
📍 Clare · Shannon Lower / North Munster
The winter of 2015–2016 brought the most prolonged and widespread flooding in Irish recorded history. Beginning with Storm Desmond on 4–5 December 2015 and continuing through Storm…
7,500
Properties
€1,000M
Est. damage
48
Days
Severe
November 2009
– 25 Nov
November 2009 Galway and Western Floods
📍 Galway · Corrib
Simultaneously with the Cork disaster, the same weather system brought severe flooding across Connacht and the wider west of Ireland in November 2009. Galway city, the Shannon catc…
1,500
Properties
€40M
Est. damage
9
Days
Catastrophic
November 2009
– 22 Nov
November 2009 Cork City Floods
📍 Cork · Lee / Bandon / South Cork
The November 2009 Cork floods were the worst urban flooding in Cork city in living memory. The River Lee burst its banks on 19–20 November, inundating the city centre, the Mardyke,…
3,000
Properties
€100M
Est. damage
7
Days
Significant
August 2008
– 08 Aug
August 2008 Dublin Flash Floods
📍 Dublin · Eastern (Dublin/Wicklow)
On 7–8 August 2008, a series of intense convective thunderstorms dumped exceptional rainfall on Dublin city and county in a matter of hours, causing severe flash flooding in multip…
600
Properties
€15M
Est. damage
2
Days