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Flood risk · Co. Donegal

Flood risk in Co. Donegal: 246 recorded floods, 51 towns

246 floods are on the OPW register within 2 km of the centres of 51 towns in Co. Donegal. 49 of those towns have at least one. Below: where, how often, and what to ask before bidding.

Figures compiled from the public records listed at the foot of this page. Data snapshot: . Updated when the records change.

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246 recorded floods around 51 towns in Co. Donegal, 49 towns with at least one.

One specific house in Co. Donegal: flood zone for that Eircode, recorded floods within 500 m, radon, planning applications within 300 m, BER, sale history. Thirty-eight checks in all, each linked to the public record.

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246

recorded flood events within 2 km of 51 town centres (OPW)

49/51

towns with at least one recorded flood nearby

90%

of Irish towns sampled have a recorded flood nearby (959 of 1,069)

Where Co. Donegal has flooded

Across 51 towns in Co. Donegal, the OPW register holds 246 recorded floods within 2 km of a town centre. By source: river 145, coastal/estuarine waters 29, runoff 14, low lying land 10, other 3, turlough 1, lake 1. The towns with the longest record:

Donegal Town17 events
Donegal17 events
Ballybofey15 events
Burnfoot14 events
Letterkenny14 events
Stranorlar13 events
Newtowncunningham11 events
Rossnowlagh8 events

A recorded event marks the town, not the house. Two houses on one road can sit either side of an OPW extent line. The town pages below show the events with dates and OPW notes; the report puts one Eircode on the map.

Other checks for Co. Donegal

Co. Donegal is in the Defective Concrete Blocks grant scheme (mica and pyrite in blocks), and the whole county is covered. For a house here, the report flags the scheme and tells you what to ask the seller about block testing.

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Flood risk by town in Co. Donegal

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Questions people ask

Which towns in Co. Donegal flood most?
By recorded events within 2 km of the town centre: Donegal Town (17), Donegal (17), Ballybofey (15), Burnfoot (14), Letterkenny (14). The OPW register counts reported floods, so a town with a long memory and a local paper scores higher than one where nobody wrote it down.
Is a house in Co. Donegal hard to insure for flood?
It depends on the street, not the county. Insurers use the OPW extents and past-event register at address level. Get the exact Eircode checked and ask the seller for the current policy schedule before you go sale agreed.
Where do these numbers come from?
The OPW past flood events register on floodinfo.ie, counted within 2 km of each town centre for towns with at least 100 registered sales since 2010. Town centres are the median location of Property Price Register sales, from homeprices.ie.

Sources

Area figures, compiled from public records. They describe the town or county, not any one house. The paid report checks the exact Eircode.