Serious flooding in Tullaghanbaun one of the remotest and inaccessible parts of south Mayo.
Wedged between the sea and Mweelrea Mountains, Tullaghanbaun in south Mayo is one of the remotest and inaccessible parts of the county
There's only one road leading into the valley and each year this road and virtually all of the farms here are subject to serious winter flooding.
Farmers in the area have already had a taste of things to come when a single night of rain flooded 200 acres of land to a depth of several feet. Good farmland is scarce in this valley, and it is increasingly difficult to get the harvest in before the floods strike each year.
There's the additional problem of sheep and cattle being marooned in waterlogged fields.
Tullaghanbaun farmers stress the situation will get worse unless an immediate drainage programme is undertaken. They want the government to include the area be in the £40 million EEC drainage scheme planned for the west of Ireland in the 1980s.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 13 November 1979. The reporter is Jim Fahy.
