Dr. Cecil Beamish:

There are no surprises that Donegal, Sligo, Mayo, Kerry, Cork, Waterford, Wexford, Galway and Clare are the nine counties. Sligo has a relatively short coastline with few of these types of harbour. As such, it has a small number of damaged harbours. Wexford also has a relatively small number of harbours, but it has suffered a significant amount of damage because it has a soft coastline that was more exposed to the easterly winds that occurred for a time during the storms. The damage is not exclusive to the west coast, but the bulk of it is. The larger the county and the longer the coastline, the greater the incidence of damage, particularly where there is a significant number of small piers and harbours and a considerable amount of fishing activity. I will not go into them all.