Vital Water Network Works To Take Place In Cork City

A programme of important water network works are scheduled to begin in Cork city later this month.

Work will take place on Douglas Road to provide a safer and more secure water supply to customers.

Irish Water and contractor Ward and Burke Limited are working with Cork City Council to deliver the works. They will be undertaken over five nights from Monday 28 February until Saturday morning, 05 March.

To safely and efficiently complete these works, they will be undertaken at night and under a road closure. Due to the location of the existing water mains and requirement to cross both lanes with excavations, closure of one lane to maintain traffic flows is unfeasible and therefore a full road closure is required. 


The Douglas Road will be closed from the bottom of the Southern Road at the Infirmary Road/Old Blackrock Road/Langford Row Junction to the junction of the Douglas Road and Tramore Lawn. The recommended vehicular diversion will be via Langford Row, Summerhill South, Evergreen Road, South Douglas road to the turn for Tramore Lawn where traffic will re-join the Douglas Road. The Douglas Road will be fully open outside of working hours. 

These works are being delivered as part of Irish Water's National Leakage Reduction Programme which focuses on providing communities with a more reliable water supply by removing old damaged pipes from the water network.