Irish Water has issued a boil water notice in parts of Wicklow and south Dublin after a mechanical failure at the Vartry Water Treatment plant.

The notice has been issued in the following areas:

• Ashford

• Newcastle including Newcastle Hospital

• Newtownmountkennedy

• Kilcoole

• Kilquade

• Kilpedder

• Kilmacanogue including Glenview Hotel/Kilmurray Cottages

• Greystones

• Cookstown Road

• Fassaroe/Berryfield Lane

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• Kilcroney

• Delgany

• Bray

• Killiskey

• Nuns Cross

• Coynes Cross

• Prospect

• Mount John

• Timmore Lane

• Dunran

• Corke Abbey

• Woodbrook Glen

• Old Connaught Avenue

• Thornhill Road

• Ballyman Road

• Ferndale Road from its junction with Old Connaught Avenue to Allies River Road

• The Dublin Road from the junction of Old Connaught Avenue to Allies River Road and all areas off these roads.

The notice was put in place as a precautionary measure to protect approximately 65,000 people served by the supply following the mechanical failure of the chlorine booster at the plant. All water treatment at the plant must have adequate chlorine levels added to the water to make it safe to drink.

Irish Water will liaise with the HSE with a view to having the Boil Water Notice removed as soon as possible.

(CD/MH)