Trunk roads in Ireland

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A trunk road was a road in the Republic of Ireland of the highest classification between 1926 and 1977. The lower classifaction of main road was termed a link road. Trunk and link roads were identified by numbers prefixed with the letter T or L respectively; lesser roads had no such identifiers. In 1977 the classification was changed to national primary and secondary, regional, and local roads. Typically, each segment previously classified as trunk or link respectively became national or regional, but the numbering was done on a new basis.

History

The UK's Ministry of Transport Act 1919 said that the British Minister of Transport "may, after consultation with the Roads Committee ... and the local authorities affected, classify roads in such manner as he thinks fit".[https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/9-10/50/section/17/enacted Ministry of Transport Act 1919 {{bracket|9 & 10 Geo. 5 c. 50}} s. 17(2)] The Irish Free State's Minister for Local Government and Public Health inherited this power under the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924.{{cite web |title=Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924, Schedule, Third Part |url=https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1924/act/16/schedule/enacted/en/html |website=electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB) |access-date=29 November 2024 |language=en}} The Local Government Act 1925 classified each road as a "main road", "county road", or "urban road", depending on whether they were to be funded by ratepayers of the whole county, the rural area, or the urban area respectively; only the minister could designate main roads.{{cite web |title=Local Government Act 1925 |url=https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1925/act/5/enacted/en/index.html |website=electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB) |access-date=1 December 2024 |pages=ss 1, 24, 27 |no-pp=y |language=en}} In December 1925 the minister made a "Main Roads Order" for each administrative county in consultation with its local authorities, designating certain roads as main roads, each numbered as a "Trunk" or "Link" road.{{multiref|

{{cite book |title=A register of the administrative law in Saorstát Éireann : including the statutory rules and orders from December 6, 1921, to December 31, 1933 |date=1935 |location=Dublin |url=http://opac.oireachtas.ie/AWData/Library3/Library1/GC001728.pdf |page=70 |accessdate=12 November 2018 |last1=Gavan Duffy |first1=George |authorlink1=George Gavan Duffy |first2=Art |last2=O'Connor |authorlink2=Art O'Connor |publisher=Stationery Office}}|

{{cite web|title=(Galway County Council Minutes Archive) Initial T and L Roads in Galway 1926 |url=http://gccapps.galwaycoco.ie/ArchivedDocuments/Galway%20County%20Council,%20Minutes,%20GC-1/GC1-04,%2029-06-1925%20-%2017-09-1932/GC1-04(a)%2029-06-1925%20-%2017-09-1932,%20p1%20to%2021%20Aug%201926.pdf|publisher=Galway County Council.|access-date=1 May 2017|pages=25 of 100}}

}} A 1926 order provided that road signs should display "the route letter and number" assigned by the minister, and that 'the expression "Main Road" [in the 1919 act] included a road classified ... as a "Trunk" or "Link" Road.'[http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1926/en/si/0055.html Statutory Instrument S.I. No. 55/1926 – Road Signs and Traffic Signals Regulations, 1926] A 1964 parliamentary answer described the Main Road Order process:{{cite web|title=Dáil Question from 1964 on Road Orders|url=https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1964-04-07/42/?highlight%5B0%5D=main&highlight%5B1%5D=road&highlight%5B2%5D=orders|publisher=Houses of the Oireachtas|access-date=29 May 2018}}

{{quote|Subsequently, in the period 1925–26, a further classification of roads was made pursuant to the Local Government Act, 1925, into main, county and urban roads, for the purpose of apportioning statutory responsibility for construction and maintenance, and for determining the chargeability of roads expenses for the purposes of annual estimates. The 1925 Act classification, like the 1919 Act classification, was also made after consultation with the local authorities, and the roads which were declared to be main roads were the trunk and link roads of the 1919 Act classification together with some additional roads decided upon after the consultation which I have mentioned.}}

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Even though legal authority for the erection of directional signposts was given to local councils, the Automobile Association of Ireland began an extensive road signposting scheme in 1938 which included comprehensive signposting of routes from Belfast, Cork and Dublin.[http://www.aaireland.ie/about/history.asp History] – AA Ireland Evidence that the Trunk Road and Link Road classification and numbering system had been well established by the 1950s is found in the Traffic Signs Regulations, 1956[http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1956/en/si/0284.html Statutory Instrument S.I. No. 284/1956 – Traffic Signs Regulations, 1956] which contains examples of several directional signs. The first and second examples show the T8 as the route to Wexford and Rosslare. In addition, Esso road-maps of Ireland from the 1950s show the Trunk and Link road network.

Supersession

This current system of road classification and numbering has its origins in the late 1960s: the Minister for Local Government, Kevin Boland, announced on 23 July 1969 that a national road network would be formed, to be planned and funded by central rather than local government.{{cite web |url=http://www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie/D/0242/D.0242.196911260012.html |title=Dáil Éireann – Volume 242 – 26 November, 1969 – Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. – County Galway Road |access-date=2011-06-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609123723/http://www.oireachtas-debates.gov.ie/D/0242/D.0242.196911260012.html |archive-date=9 June 2011}} – Parliamentary Debates The Local Government (Roads and Motorways) Act 1974 allowed for designation of roads as motorways or national roads.{{cite web |title=Local Government (Roads and Motorways) Act 1974 s. 2 |url=https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1974/act/6/section/2/enacted/en/html#sec2 |website=Irish Statute Book |access-date=1 December 2024}} National roads were first designated on 1 June 1977.{{multiref|

{{cite web |title=Local Government (Roads and Motorways) Act 1974: Commencement, Amendments, SIs made under the Act |url=https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/isbc/1974_6.html |website=Irish Statute Book |access-date=1 December 2024 |page=SIs made under the Act |no-pp=y |date=23 October 2024}}|

{{cite web |title=S.I. No. 164/1977 - Local Government (Roads and Motorways) Act, 1974 (Declaration of National Roads) Order, 1977. View |url=https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/1977/si/164/made/en/print |website=electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB) |access-date=1 December 2024 |language=en}}

}} Twenty-five National Primary routes (N1-N25) and thirty-three National Secondary routes (N51-N83) were initially designated. Sections of national roads upgraded to motorway status would use letter M instead of N in the identifier (beginning in 1983).

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The changeover to the new system was gradual: a route planning map of Ireland from the late 1970s (or early 1980s) shows a mixture of Trunk Road, Link Road and National route numbers.[http://boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=69432&d=1230829831 northern section] and a [http://boards.ie/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=69434&d=1230829999 southern section]{{primary source inline|date=November 2024}}

Trunk Roads and Link Roads

Major roads within the Republic of Ireland were marked with "T" for Trunk Road, less important roads were marked with "L" for Link Road.

Trunk Roads connected major towns to each other while passing through smaller towns and villages.

Several trunk routes were designed to connect towns in different regions of Ireland (for example, the T41 from Enfield to Kilrush, via Tullamore, Portumna, Scariff and Ennis) while other roads (for example, the T66 Ring of Kerry route) were designated scenic routes.

Link Roads connected smaller towns and villages to each other and to the Trunk Road network.

There were eighty-four Trunk Roads in total, numbered from T1 to T77 consecutively (plus T4a, T11a, T12a, T21a, T28a, T50a and T72a). Roads with the 'a' suffix branched off roads with the same number. For example, the T4a branched off the T4 at Ballinasloe in County Galway and the T12a branched off the T12 to serve Cóbh in County Cork.

The first nine Trunk Roads (T1, T2, T3, T4, T4a, T5, T6, T7, T8) radiated out from Dublin (with the T8 branching off the T7 at Enniscorthy) and followed an anti-clockwise pattern. This pattern was similar to the existing anti-clockwise pattern which the National routes and motorways radiating out of Dublin now follow. The pattern was interrupted by the T35 (Dublin-Cavan-Donegal route) which came between the T2 and the T3 and the T42 (now N81), T43 and T44 which came between the T5 (T6) and the T7 routes.

Unlike the present system, where each road (whether N- or R-) has a unique number, under the Trunk and Link Road system, Link Roads were numbered separately beginning with L1. These L (for Link Road) numbers are not related to the current Lxxxx numbers for Local Roads.

Confusingly, some old road signs still show the former (now obsolete) Trunk and Link road-numbers.

Trunk Roads were broadly equivalent to the present National routes, and Link Roads to the present Regional roads. Most of the National Primary and National Secondary routes had been Trunk Roads and generally they followed the routes of these Trunk Roads, albeit with a different numbering system. However, some National Primary and Secondary routes also incorporated Link Roads and unclassified roads into their routes. After the introduction of the new road numbering system, some Trunk Roads (either in whole or in part) were downgraded to Regional roads, effectively 'de-trunked'Trunk road#De-trunking: Ireland.

A notable feature of the former system was multiplexing (or concurrency), where a section of road was designated by two or more route numbers. Examples of multiplexes include the T7/T12 multiplex between New Ross and Waterford, the T6/T13 multiplex between Cahir and Kilheffernan (east of Clonmel), the T28/T36 multiplex between Newcastlewest and Abbeyfeale and the short T19/T21 multiplex between Thurles and Toor. The road between Cavan, Butlersbridge, Cloverhill and the border with Northern Ireland (near Wattle Bridge in County Fermanagh) was a triple multiplex of the T10, T15 and T35 routes.

Three routes (T15, T22, T35) had sections which were disconnected from the rest of the route by roads which crossed through Northern Ireland. These routes lost their Trunk Road designations through Northern Ireland, regaining them on exiting Northern Ireland. The T15 crossed the border several times between Cavan and Clones, alternating between the T15 and the A3 designations.

List of former trunk roads in Ireland

Multiplex sections, where two or more trunk roads ran concurrent with each other, are shown in italics. Sections through Northern Ireland, with A and B road designations, are shown in bold.

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Road

! From

! To

! Itinerary

! Replaced by

T1

|Dublin

|(Belfast)

|DublinSwordsBalbrigganDroghedaDunleerDundalkborder – (to Belfast via A1)

|N1

T2

|Dublin

|(Derry)

|Dublin – AshbourneSlaneCollonArdeeCarrickmacrossCastleblayneyMonaghanEmyvaleborder – (to Derry via A5)

|N2

T3

|Dublin

|Sligo

|Dublin – LucanLeixlipMaynoothKilcockEnfieldKinnegadMullingarEdgeworthstownLongfordRooskyDromodCarrick-on-ShannonBoyleCollooney – Sligo

|N4

T4

|(Dublin)

|Galway

|(Dublin) – Kinnegad – RochfortbridgeKilbegganMoateAthloneBallinasloe (multiplex with T31)Kilconnell – Kiltullagh – Athenry – Derrydonnell – Oranmore – Galway

|N6
R348

T4a

|Ballinasloe

|Loughrea

|(Dublin) – Ballinasloe – Garbally – Aughrim – Kilreekill – Kilmeen – Loughrea (multiplex with T21)

|N6

T5

|Dublin

|Limerick

|Dublin – NaasNewbridgeKildareMonasterevinPortlaoiseMountrathBorris-in-OssoryRoscreaNenagh – Lisnagry – Limerick

|N7

T6

|(Dublin)

|Cork

|(Dublin) – Naas – KilcullenAthyCastlecomerHenebry's Cross – Kilkenny (multiplex with T14)CallanNinemilehouseKilheffernan – ClonmelCahir (multiplex with T13) – Kilbehenny – Mitchelstown – Moorepark – FermoyRathcormacWatergrasshillGlanmireCork

|N9
N78
N77
N76
N24
N8

T7

|Dublin

|Waterford

|Dublin – Stillorgan – nr St. Colmcille's Hospital, Loughlinstown – nr Shankill – Fassaroe – NewtownmountkennedyRathnewRathdrumAvocaWoodenbridgeArklowGoreyFernsEnniscorthyNew RossWaterford (multiplex with T12)

|N11
R752
R747
N79 (now N30)
N25

T8

|Enniscorthy

|Rosslare

|(Dublin) – Enniscorthy – Oylgate – Ferrycarrig Bridge – Wexford – Blackhorse – Killinick – Rosslare

|N11
N25

T9

|Dundalk

|Cahir

|Dundalk – Ardee – KellsDelvin – Mullingar – Kilbeggan – Tullamore – Ballard – CadamstownKinnitty – Boheraphuca – Ballybritt – Roscrea – TemplemoreThurlesHolycrossCashel – Cahir – (to Cork via T6)

|N52
R421
N62
R660
N8

T10

|(Enniskillen)

|Mullingar

|('from Enniskillen) – Wattle Bridge – border – Cloverhill – ButlersbridgeCavan (multiplex with T35 & T15) – Ballinagh (or Bellananagh) – nr Kilcogy (multiplex with T15)FinneaCastlepollard – Mullingar

|N54
N3
N55
R394

T11

|Cork

|(Sligo)

|Cork – MallowButtevantCharlevilleCroomPatrickswell – Limerick – Bunratty – Hurler's Cross – Newmarket on FergusEnnis – Crusheen – Gort – Coole – Lydican – Drumharsna – Owenbristy – Kiltiernan – KilcolganClarinbridge – Oranmore – Galway (multiplex with T4) – ClaregalwayTuamDunmoreCloonfadBallyhaunis – Tawnyinah – CharlestownTubbercurry – Collooney – joined T3 to Sligo

|N20
N18
N6
N17

T11a

|Dunmore

|Ballymoe

|Dunmore – WilliamstownBallymoe

|R360

T12

|Cork

|Wexford

|Cork – Dunkettle – CarrigtwohillMidletonCastlemartyrKilleaghYoughalDungarvan – Joulterspark – LemybrienKilmeadenWaterford – New Ross (multiplex with T7) – Wexford

|N25

T12a

|(Cork)

|Cobh

|(Cork) – Cobh Cross – Cobh

|R624

T13

|Limerick

|Waterford

|Limerick – TipperaryBanshaCahir – Clonmel – Kilheffernan (multiplex with T6)Carrick on SuirMooncoin – Waterford

|N24

T14

|Waterford

|Tullamore

| Waterford – MullinavatBallyhaleKnocktopherStoneyfordKilkenny – Henebry's Cross (multiplex with T6)BallyraggetBallinakillAbbeyleix – Portlaoise – Mountmellick – Tullamore

|N9
N10
N77
R432
N8
N80

T15

|(Galway)

|(Monaghan)

|(Galway) – Roouanmore – LackaghTurloughmore – Moylough – MountbellewAthleagueRoscommonLanesborough – Longford – Ballinalee – Granard – nr Kilcogy – Ballinagh (or Bellananagh) – Cavan (multiplex with T10) – Butlersbridge – Leggykelly (multiplex with T10-T35)border – A3 – County Fermanagh – border – re-entered County Cavan – border (Derrynure) – A3 – County Fermanagh – border – entered County Monaghan – Clones – Smithborough – Monaghan – border (Tamlat) – (to Armagh via A3)

|N63
R194
N55
N3
N54
N12

T16

|(Enniscorthy)

|Portlaoise

|(Enniscorthy) – Ballynahallin – BunclodyBallonCarlowBallickmoylerArlessStradbally – Portlaoise

|N80

T17

|Sligo

|(Enniskillen)

|Sligo – ManorhamiltonBlacklionborder – (to Enniskillen and Belfast via A4 and, later, NI's M1)

|N16

T18

|Sligo

|(Derry)

|Sligo- GrangeDrumcliffe – BundoranBallyshannonDonegalBallybofeyStranorlar – Killygordon – Castlefin – Cloghfin – border – Clady – (to Strabane and Derry via B85 and A5)

|N15

T19

|Kilkenny

|(Limerick)

|KilkennyFreshfordUrlingford – Turnpike (multiplex with T36)Thurles – Toor (multiplex with T21) – Ballycahill – Rosmult – Milestone – Inch – Anglesey Bridge – Rear Cros – Newport – Lisnagry – (to Limerick via T5)

|R693
N8
N75
R498
R503

T20

|Kilkenny

|New Ross

|Kilkenny – BennettsbridgeThomastownInistioge – New Ross

|R700

T21

|Thurles

|(Galway)

|Thurles – Toor (multiplex with T19)Borrisoleigh – Nenagh – BorrisokanePortumna – Killimor – Ballydavid – Killmeen – Loughrea (multiplex with T4a)Craughwell – Derrydonnell (to Galway via T4)

|R498
N52
N65
N6

T21a

|Borrisokane

|Moneygall

|Borrisokane – CloughjordanMoneygall

|R490

T22

|Dundalk

|Castleblayney

|Dundalk – border – A37 – Cullaville – border – re-entered County Monaghan – Castleblayney

|N53

T23

|Dundalk

|(Armagh)

|Dundalk – Kilcurry – border – (to Newtownhamilton, Keady and Armagh via A29)

|R177

T24

|Dundalk

|Granard

|Dundalk – Chanonrock – Carrickmacross – Corvally – ShercockBailieboroughVirginiaBallyjamesduff – Ballymachugh – nr Finnea – Granard

|R178
R194

T25

|(Drogheda)

|Collon

|(Drogheda) – Collon

|R168

T26

|Drogheda

|Kinnegad

|Drogheda – Slane – NavanBective AbbeyTrim – Kinnegad

|N51
R161

T27

|(Youghal)

|Clonmel

|(Youghal) – KinsalebegClashmore – Modeligo – Halfwayhouse Inn – Ballymacarbry – Clonmel

|R671

T28

|(Limerick)

|Tralee

|(Limerick) – Patrickswell – AdareRathkealeNewcastle WestAbbeyfeale (multiplex with T36)Castleisland – Caherbreagh – Tralee

|N21

T28a

|Castleisland

|Farranfore

|Castleisland – Farranfore

|N23

T29

|(Tralee)

|Cork

|(Tralee) – Caherbreagh – Farranfore – KillarneyBallyvourneyMacroomCoachford – Carrigrohane – Cork

|N22
R618

T30

|(Dungarvan)

|(Killarney)

|(Dungarvan) – Joulterspark – Cappoquin – nr LismoreBallyduffFermoyCastletownroche – Mallow – Rathmore – Clasheen – (to Killarney via T29)

|N72
R666

T31

|Portumna

|Granard

|Portumna – Ballinasloe – Athlone (multiplex with T4)Ballymahon – Edgeworthstown – Granard

|R355
N6
N55

T32

|Roscrea

|(Athlone)

|Roscrea – BirrCloghanFerbane – Fardrum – (to Athlone via T4)

|N62

T33

|Birr

|Borrisokane

|Birr – Ballingarry – Borrisokane

|N52

T34

|Athlone

|Boyle

|Athlone – Roscommon – Tulsk – Boyle

|N61

T35

|Dublin

|(Donegal)

|Dublin – CloneeDunshaughlin – Navan – Kells – Virginia – Cavan – Butlersbridge – Cloverhill – border – (multiplex with T10-T15)A3 – Wattle Bridge – A34 – NewtownbutlerLisnaskeaTamlaght – A4 – Enniskillen – A32 – Irvinestown – A35 – Kesh – borderPettigoLaghey – (to Donegal via T18)

|N3
N54
R232

T36

|Abbeyleix

|Listowel

|Abbeyleix – DurrowCullahillUrlingford – Turnpike (multiplex with T19)Horse and Jockey – Cashel – Golden – Tipperary – EmlyKilmallock – Charleville – DrumcolliherFeohanaghNewcastle West – Abbeyfeale (multiplex with T28)DuaghListowel

|N8
N74
R515
R522
N21
R555

T37

|Cashel

|(Kilkenny)

|Cashel – Dually – Ballinure – Laffansbridge – KillenauleBallingarry – Ballyline – Ballymack – (to Kilkenny via T6)

|R691

T38

|Mitchelstown

|Mallow

|Mitchelstown – Kildorrery – Mallow

|N73

T39

|Roscommon

|Louisburgh

|Roscommon – Ballymoe – Castlerea – Ballyhaunis – Claremorris – BallaCastlebarWestportLouisburgh

|N60
N5
R335

T40

|(Sligo)

|Galway

|(Sligo) – BallysadareBeltraDromore WestEaskyRathleeKilglassEnniscroneCorraunBallinaFoxfordStradeBellavaryCastlebarBallintubberPartryBallinrobeKilmaineShruleHeadford – Galway

|N59
R297
N57 (now N26)
N58
N5
N84

T41

|Enfield

|Kilrush

|(Dublin) – Enfield – EdenderryDaingeanBallinagarClonmoreCappincurTullamoreScregganBlue BallKilcormac – Birr – RiverstownPikePortland – Portumna – Power's CrossGorteenyMountshannonScariffTuamgraneyBodykeMoymoreSpancil Hill – Ennis – DarraghCahereaLissycaseyKnockaloughKilrush

|R402
N52
R489
N65
R352
N68

T42

|Dublin

|Clash

|Dublin – TempleogueTallaghtBrittasBlessingtonBaltinglassRathvillyTullow – Clash – (joined T16)

|N81

T43

|Dublin

|(Bray)

|Dublin – MilltownWindy ArbourDundrumSandyfordStepasideKiltiernanEnniskerry – Fassaroe – (Bray)

|R117

T44

|Dublin

|(Shankill)

|Dublin – BallsbridgeMerrionBooterstownBlackrockMonkstownDún LaoghaireDalkeyKilliney – (Shankill) – (to Bray via T7)

|R118
N31
R119

T45

|Clones

|(Newry)

|Clones – KilleevanNewbliss – Ballybay – Castleblayney – Milltownborder – (to Newtownhamilton and Newry via A25)

|R183
R182

T46

|Carrickmacross

|Ballybay

|Carrickmacross – Ballybay

|R180

T47

|Tullamore

|(Athlone)

|Tullamore – Clara – Moate – (to Athlone via T4)

|N80

T48

|Durrow

|(Borris-in-Ossory)

|Durrow – BallycollaAghaboe – Sentry Hill – (to Borris in Ossory and Roscrea via T5)

|R434

T49

|Cashel

|Clonmel

|Cashel – RosegreenBallyclerahan – Clonmel

|R688

T50

|Mitchelstown

|(Limerick)

|Mitchelstown – BallylandersKnocklongHospitalHerbertstown (multiplexed with T57)CaherconlishBeary's Cross – (to Limerick via T13)

|R513

T50a

|Kilmallock

|(Limerick)

|Kilmallock – BruffHoly Cross – nr Ballybricken – (to Limerick via T57)

|R512

T51

|Kilcullen

|Kilkenny

|(Dublin – Naas) – KilcullenTimolinMooneCastledermot – Carlow – LeighlinbridgePaulstown – Kilkenny

|N9
N10

T52

|(Drumsna)

|Belturbet

|(Drumsna) – AnnaduffMohillCloone GrangeCarrigallenKilleshandraMilltown AbbeyLisnamaineKilconney – Belturbet – Sugarloaf – Gannons Cross – joined T10-T35 multiplex

|R201
R200 (now N87)
R197

T53

|Dromod

|Swanlinbar

|Dromod – Mohill – Garvagh – Fenagh – BallinamoreGortmoreSwanlinbarborder – (to Enniskillen via A32 and A4)

|R202

T54

|Carrick on Shannon

|Bundoran

|Carrick on Shannon – LeitrimDrumgormanDrumshanbo – Tarmon – DrumkeeranKillarga – Manorhamilton – GlenadeKinlough – Bundoran

|R280

T55

|(Carrick on Shannon)

|Fenagh

|(Carrick on Shannon) – DrumheckilKeshcarrigan – Fenagh – joined T53

|R209

T56

|Carrick on Suir

|(Kilkenny)

|Carrick on Suir – Ballinacluna – (Kilkenny via T6)

|R696

T57

|Limerick

|Emly

|Limerick – Ballyneety – nr BallybrickenMohaneHerbertstown – Hospital (multiplexed with T50) – Emly (joined T36)

|R512
R514
R513
R516

T58

|Ballina

|Belmullet

|Ballina – CrossmolinaBellacorickBangor ErrisBunnahowenBelmullet

|N59
R313

T59

|Stranorlar

|(Derry)

|Stranorlar – Kilross – Letterkenny – Manorcunningham – Newtown Cunningham – Speenoge – Bridge End – border – (to Derry via A2)

|N56 (now N13)
N13

T60

|(Letterkenny)

|Lifford

|(Letterkenny) – nr Corkey – Lifford – border – A38 – Strabane – (to Derry and Dublin via A5)

|N14

T61

|(Bray)

|Rathdrum

|(Bray) – KilmacanogueKilloughRoundwoodAnnamoeLaragh – Rathdrum

|R755

T62

|(Dundalk)

|(Omeath)

|(Dundalk) – BallymascanlanThe BushCarlingfordOmeathCornamucklaghborder – (to Newry via B79)

|R173

T63

|Waterford

|Dungarvan

|Waterford – TramoreAnnestownKnockmahonBunmahon – Stradbally – Dungarvan

|R675

T64

|Macroom

|(Bantry)

|Macroom – KilbarryInchigeelaghBallingearyKealkillBallylickey – (to Bantry via T65)

|R584

T65

|Killarney

|Cork

|Killarney – KenmareGlengarriff – Bantry – ScartAghavilleDrimoleagueDunmanwayEnniskeaneBandonInishannonHalfway – Cork

|N71
R586

T66

|Tralee

|Kenmare

|Tralee – CastlemaineKillorglinGlenbeighCahirciveenWatervilleCaherdanielSneemParknasilla – Kenmare (part of Ring of Kerry route)

|N70

T67

|Killorglin

|Killarney

|Killorglin – Killarney (part of Ring of Kerry route)

|N72

T68

|Limerick

|Dingle

|Limerick – KildimoAskeatonFoynesTarbertListowelTraleeCampAnnascaulDingle

|N69
R559 (now N86)

T69

|Kilcolgan

|Kilrush

|Kilcolgan – KinvaraBallyvaughanLisdoonvarnaEnnistymonLahinchMilltown MalbayQuiltyDoonbegKilkee – Kilrush

|N67

T70

|Ennistymon

|Ennis

|Ennistymon – Ennis

|N85

T71

|Galway

|Bangor Erris

|Galway – Moycullen – Oughterard – Maam Cross – Recess – Clifden – Letterfrack – Kylemore Abbey – Leenane – Carrowkennedy – Liscarney – Westport – Newport – Mulrany – Ballycroy – Bangor Erris

|N59

T72

|Donegal

|Letterkenny

|Donegal – Inver – Dunkineely – Five Points – Ardara – Kilrean – Glenties – Lettermacaward – Dungloe – Burtonport – Kincasslagh – Crolly – Dore – Bunbeg – Brinlack – Gortahork – Falcarragh – Dunfanaghy – Creeslough – Cashel – Carrigart – Milford – Ramelton – Letterkenny (West Donegal Coastal Route)

|N56
R259
R257
R245

T72a

|Donegal

|Malin More

|(Donegal) – Five Points – Killybegs – Kilcar – Glencolumbkille – Malin More

|R263

T73

|Speenoge

|(Derry)

|Inishowen Ring: Speenoge – Burnfoot – Fahan – Buncrana – Drumfree – Clonmany – Ballyliffen – Carndonagh – Gleneely – Moville – Whitecastle – Quigley's Point – Muff – border (Culmore) – (to Derry via A2)

|R238

T74

|Letterkenny

|(Derry)

|(Letterkenny) – Newtown Cunningham – Speenoge – Bridge End – border – (to Derry via A2)

|N13

T75

|(Dungarvan)

|(Clonmel)

|(Dungarvan) – Ballymacmague South – Halfway House Inn – (to Clonmel via T27)

|R672

T76

|Borrisoleigh

|Templemore

|Borrisoleigh – Templemore

|R501

T77

|Longford

|Foxford

|Longford – Strokestown – Tulsk – Frenchpark – Ballaghaderreen – Charlestown – Swinford – Foxford

|N5
N57 (now N26)

See also

References

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