Flooding led to several families having their homes cut off as the torrential rain brought chaos to parts of Fermanagh.

The Clifford family who live near Lisnaskea beside Lough Erne had to use a tractor to get their children to school after the rising water threatened their house.

Margaret Clifford said: “ I have never seen it this bad, my husband had to take them across on the tractor.

“The kids think it is wonderful to get out on the tractor, but they have no other way to get out onto the road from their house,” she said.

“It is an inconvenience, only for the tractor I don’t know what would happen,” she said.

“There would have always been a small flood on this road but it would have been passable, so I don’t know where all the water is going to go,” she said.

“We would have concerns for the future, especially for people who are more low lying than us,” she said. Her husband William added: “We have only a quarter of the land available, that we had in August and September, it’s all under water.

“This time Fermanagh is in Lough Erne, it is not the case that Lough Erne is in Fermanagh.”

Meanwhile flooding in the Boho area of Fermanagh has prompted concerns about children due to sit transfer tests today.

Eileen McKenzie McGourty Principal at Killyhommon Primary School in Boho, said many P7 pupils will be forced to wade through flood water to get to Enniskillen post primary schools to sit the tests. Due to the flood water levels, children are being driven to school on high agricultural vehicles or tractors, as the water has been lapping in over the steps of the school bus.

“It will be difficult for the parents, and for the children it will be a nerve wrecking morning, and they don’t need the added problem of flooding,” she said.

Adults are able to wade through the deluge in wellington boots, however the water is too deep for children to do this, she explained.

“The parents are determined to get out, but it is going to be difficult for a few of them, they are going to have to wade through the water,” she said.

School meals deliveries have also been affected, and have had to be delivered by bus and farmers have offered to take them in by tractor, she said.