Images shared by farmers around the country track the damage caused at the very time when they would have been hoping for drying weather to allow early field access for activities including slurry spreading.

The rainfall hit the west coast first. This mixed farmer in Killaloe, Co Clare, reported nearly 3in of rain in two hours.

In neighbouring Co Limerick, the Salesian college at Pallaskenry saw similar conditions.

On the Galway/Roscommon border, dairy farmer Ed Payne tracked water accumulation through the rise in the turlough on his farm.

It was a similar story from Co Tipperary pedigree sheep farmers Noel and Áine Clancy.

Moving east later in the day, Irish Farmers Journal farmer writers Ronan Delany in Co Meath and Bill O'Keeffe in Co Kilkenny exchanged pictures of the aftermath.

Bill captured more in this video.

This attracted this response from dairy farmer Ed Payne, also in Co Kilkenny:

The latest rain hit land already saturated with water. All of Met Éireann's weather stations recorded higher than normal precipitation in the seven weeks prior to Sunday. Those in the north and west received around double the normal rainfall, with Claremorris, Co Mayo, and Shannon Airport, Co Clare, topping 60mm and recording more than twice their normal weekly amounts.

Met Éireann is now forecasting that the last of this rain will clear by Sunday night.

The outlook is for dry weather for the next two days, but more rain is forecast midweek.

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