A landslide over 3km long has left a number of homes cut off in Co Kerry.
Engineers from Kerry County Council and representatives of the Shannon Fisheries Board are at the scene of the mudslide in Lyreacrompane, near Castleisland.
Lyreacrompane is an area which lies in the Stacks Mountains close to Listowel.
Around 20 acres of peat, with a depth of up to 5 metres, has so far travelled over 3km.
As a result of the slide, the Killduff to Maugha road is completely blocked. Some residents have no access to the main road from their houses after a small bridge was swept away.
Kerry County Council says this month's record rain levels are at least partly to blame for the mudslide.
Efforts are being made to prevent material from the slide from entering the river Smearlagh, which the Fisheries Board says would bring about an ecological disaster for local Salmon and Sea trout.
However quantities of trout and juvenile salmon have already been killed in the river Feale catchment area.
