Homes and property damaged as county hit by flooding

Fire and Rescue Services worked around the clock on Monday night and into the early hours of Tuesday morning as rivers and lakes across Cavan reached peak level, bursting their banks with several houses reporting flooding and further damage caused to other property around the county.

Two homes were flooded, one where an elderly man had to be rescued from the first floor of his home in Snugborough on the outskirts in Ballyconnell after 9pm on Monday night, and another where a family battled throughout the night when Swellan Lake in Cavan Town rose and swept through their house in the Glenlara Estate.

The Sajid family in Glenlara were first alerted to the imminent flooding threat shortly after 10pm (Their video of the flooding of their home is available here- http://youtu.be/3MnDKpjGWdI)

The fire service were called elsewhere in the county to houses under the threat of flooding at Portaliffe and Aughaveeney near Killeshandra, while there were a number of incidents, at Ballyheady near Ballinamore and on the N3 in Killygarry where motorists became stuck and needed assistance.

The toll on businesses too was felt when shoppers arrived on Tuesday morning to find the carpark at Super Valu, in the Lakeland Retail Park on the Dublin Road submerged. Though once again fire services were quickly on the scene.

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