People are being asked not to climb Co Donegal's highest mountain while a helicopter carries heavy materials overhead during repair works to a new pathway.
The 3km pathway up the mountain located in Gaoth Dobhair was completed last October.
Sections of the €630,000 trail were washed away following heavy rain in May.
Cairde na hEaragaile, which was established in 2022 aimed at protecting the mountainous area, is appealing to hikers to avoid the area as the vital repair work, using the helicopter, is carried out on the path, project officer with Cairde na hEaragaile Josephine Kelly said.
The repairs are expected to take up to eight weeks to complete.
Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, she said: "The work will be taking place over the next six to eight weeks and the path will be open while this work is taking place.
"We are just asking people not to climb while the helicopter is operating."
which now have to be refitted and replaced
Ms Kelly said torrential rain in May caused significant damage to the then newly constructed path.
"The figures that we've received show that about five inches (13cm) of rain fell in the space of about three hours.
"The lake at the base of the mountain rose by two feet (61cm) in the space of four hours."
"There is a little stream that runs along the side of the newly constructed path ... but the torrential rain caused the stream to become a river and it ended up taking some of the embankments with it.
"It carried large boulders of stone down the stream or the river, and it choked it in a couple of places and unfortunately the water had nowhere to go but to come up.
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"And it came up over the path and just about 200 metres or so off the path and that repair work is current taking place."
Cairde na hEaragaile is considering the implementation of a long-term maintenance plan to help prepare for future weather events.
"What we are looking at doing is putting a long-term maintenance plan in place ... because the topography of the area.
"This is a mountain environment and things will change ... these weather events will happen and we have to make allowances for that."
