Destructive floods on The Liffey (1910)
Kilcullen, Saturday. Not for many years have such disastrous floods being experienced in their neighbourhoods as have followed from the deluge of rain that has fallen last night and today. The upper reaches of the Liffey are swollen to an abnormal extent.
The river has overflowed its banks, and the low-lying lands are flooded in some instances to a depth of several feet.
The water has invaded several dwellinghouses and out-offices in Kilcullen. Large quantities of driftwood have been swept down with the flood. The Kilcullen Mills, belonging to Mr. John Collins, are flooded to a depth of from 4 to 6 feet, but fortunately Mr. Collins was able to have all the corn, meal, etc., stored on the ground floors removed to the lofts before the invading floods carried destruction to his property.
The tributaries to the Liffey in this district are all flooded, and the fields adjoining ate covered with water.
It is stated that not for the past half-century have such floods been seen along the course of the Liffey in this locality. Cattle and sheep have had to be hastily driven from the flooded areas in the country districts, and all farming operations are at a standstill, owning to the sodden state of the land.
— Freemans Journal 21.02.1910.
(Credit to Dave Byrne, who has taken the time to trawl through the old newspapers for reports from Kilcullen.)
