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.}}
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 |
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T1
|(Belfast) |Dublin – Swords – Balbriggan – Drogheda – Dunleer – Dundalk – border – (to Belfast via A1) |N1 |
T2
|(Derry) |Dublin – Ashbourne – Slane – Collon – Ardee – Carrickmacross – Castleblayney – Monaghan – Emyvale – border – (to Derry via A5) |N2 |
T3
|Dublin – Lucan – Leixlip – Maynooth – Kilcock – Enfield – Kinnegad – Mullingar – Edgeworthstown – Longford – Roosky – Dromod – Carrick-on-Shannon – Boyle – Collooney – Sligo |N4 |
T4
|(Dublin) |(Dublin) – Kinnegad – Rochfortbridge – Kilbeggan – Moate – Athlone – Ballinasloe (multiplex with T31) – Kilconnell – Kiltullagh – Athenry – Derrydonnell – Oranmore – Galway |N6 |
T4a
|(Dublin) – Ballinasloe – Garbally – Aughrim – Kilreekill – Kilmeen – Loughrea (multiplex with T21) |N6 |
T5
|Dublin – Naas – Newbridge – Kildare – Monasterevin – Portlaoise – Mountrath – Borris-in-Ossory – Roscrea – Nenagh – Lisnagry – Limerick |N7 |
T6
|(Dublin) |Cork |(Dublin) – Naas – Kilcullen – Athy – Castlecomer – Henebry's Cross – Kilkenny (multiplex with T14) – Callan – Ninemilehouse – Kilheffernan – Clonmel – Cahir (multiplex with T13) – Kilbehenny – Mitchelstown – Moorepark – Fermoy – Rathcormac – Watergrasshill – Glanmire – Cork |N9 |
T7
|Dublin – Stillorgan – nr St. Colmcille's Hospital, Loughlinstown – nr Shankill – Fassaroe – Newtownmountkennedy – Rathnew – Rathdrum – Avoca – Woodenbridge – Arklow – Gorey – Ferns – Enniscorthy – New Ross – Waterford (multiplex with T12) |N11 |
T8
|(Dublin) – Enniscorthy – Oylgate – Ferrycarrig Bridge – Wexford – Blackhorse – Killinick – Rosslare |N11 |
T9
|Dundalk – Ardee – Kells – Delvin – Mullingar – Kilbeggan – Tullamore – Ballard – Cadamstown – Kinnitty – Boheraphuca – Ballybritt – Roscrea – Templemore – Thurles – Holycross – Cashel – Cahir – (to Cork via T6) |N52 |
T10
|(Enniskillen) |('from Enniskillen) – Wattle Bridge – border – Cloverhill – Butlersbridge – Cavan (multiplex with T35 & T15) – Ballinagh (or Bellananagh) – nr Kilcogy (multiplex with T15) – Finnea – Castlepollard – Mullingar |N54 |
T11
|Cork |(Sligo) |Cork – Mallow – Buttevant – Charleville – Croom – Patrickswell – Limerick – Bunratty – Hurler's Cross – Newmarket on Fergus – Ennis – Crusheen – Gort – Coole – Lydican – Drumharsna – Owenbristy – Kiltiernan – Kilcolgan – Clarinbridge – Oranmore – Galway (multiplex with T4) – Claregalway – Tuam – Dunmore – Cloonfad – Ballyhaunis – Tawnyinah – Charlestown – Tubbercurry – Collooney – joined T3 to Sligo |N20 |
T11a
|Dunmore – Williamstown – Ballymoe |R360 |
T12
|Cork |Cork – Dunkettle – Carrigtwohill – Midleton – Castlemartyr – Killeagh – Youghal – Dungarvan – Joulterspark – Lemybrien – Kilmeaden – Waterford – New Ross (multiplex with T7) – Wexford |N25 |
T12a
|(Cork) |Cobh |(Cork) – Cobh Cross – Cobh |R624 |
T13
|Limerick – Tipperary – Bansha – Cahir – Clonmel – Kilheffernan (multiplex with T6) – Carrick on Suir – Mooncoin – Waterford |N24 |
T14
| Waterford – Mullinavat – Ballyhale – Knocktopher – Stoneyford – Kilkenny – Henebry's Cross (multiplex with T6) – Ballyragget – Ballinakill – Abbeyleix – Portlaoise – Mountmellick – Tullamore |N9 |
T15
|(Galway) |(Monaghan) |(Galway) – Roouanmore – Lackagh – Turloughmore – Moylough – Mountbellew – Athleague – Roscommon – Lanesborough – 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 |
T16
|(Enniscorthy) |(Enniscorthy) – Ballynahallin – Bunclody – Ballon – Carlow – Ballickmoyler – Arless – Stradbally – Portlaoise |N80 |
T17
|(Enniskillen) |Sligo – Manorhamilton – Blacklion – border – (to Enniskillen and Belfast via A4 and, later, NI's M1) |N16 |
T18
|(Derry) |Sligo- Grange – Drumcliffe – Bundoran – Ballyshannon – Donegal – Ballybofey – Stranorlar – Killygordon – Castlefin – Cloghfin – border – Clady – (to Strabane and Derry via B85 and A5) |N15 |
T19
|(Limerick) |Kilkenny – Freshford – Urlingford – Turnpike (multiplex with T36) – Thurles – Toor (multiplex with T21) – Ballycahill – Rosmult – Milestone – Inch – Anglesey Bridge – Rear Cros – Newport – Lisnagry – (to Limerick via T5) |R693 |
T20
|Kilkenny – Bennettsbridge – Thomastown – Inistioge – New Ross |R700 |
T21
|(Galway) |Thurles – Toor (multiplex with T19) – Borrisoleigh – Nenagh – Borrisokane – Portumna – Killimor – Ballydavid – Killmeen – Loughrea (multiplex with T4a) – Craughwell – Derrydonnell (to Galway via T4) |R498 |
T21a
|Borrisokane – Cloughjordan – Moneygall |R490 |
T22
|Dundalk – border – A37 – Cullaville – border – re-entered County Monaghan – Castleblayney |N53 |
T23
|(Armagh) |Dundalk – Kilcurry – border – (to Newtownhamilton, Keady and Armagh via A29) |R177 |
T24
|Dundalk – Chanonrock – Carrickmacross – Corvally – Shercock – Bailieborough – Virginia – Ballyjamesduff – Ballymachugh – nr Finnea – Granard |R178 |
T25
|(Drogheda) |(Drogheda) – Collon |R168 |
T26
|Drogheda – Slane – Navan – Bective Abbey – Trim – Kinnegad |N51 |
T27
|(Youghal) |(Youghal) – Kinsalebeg – Clashmore – Modeligo – Halfwayhouse Inn – Ballymacarbry – Clonmel |R671 |
T28
|(Limerick) |(Limerick) – Patrickswell – Adare – Rathkeale – Newcastle West – Abbeyfeale (multiplex with T36) – Castleisland – Caherbreagh – Tralee |N21 |
T28a
|Castleisland – Farranfore |N23 |
T29
|(Tralee) |Cork |(Tralee) – Caherbreagh – Farranfore – Killarney – Ballyvourney – Macroom – Coachford – Carrigrohane – Cork |N22 |
T30
|(Dungarvan) |(Killarney) |(Dungarvan) – Joulterspark – Cappoquin – nr Lismore – Ballyduff – Fermoy – Castletownroche – Mallow – Rathmore – Clasheen – (to Killarney via T29) |N72 |
T31
|Portumna – Ballinasloe – Athlone (multiplex with T4) – Ballymahon – Edgeworthstown – Granard |R355 |
T32
|(Athlone) |Roscrea – Birr – Cloghan – Ferbane – Fardrum – (to Athlone via T4) |N62 |
T33
|Birr |Birr – Ballingarry – Borrisokane |N52 |
T34
|Athlone – Roscommon – Tulsk – Boyle |N61 |
T35
|(Donegal) |Dublin – Clonee – Dunshaughlin – Navan – Kells – Virginia – Cavan – Butlersbridge – Cloverhill – border – (multiplex with T10-T15) – A3 – Wattle Bridge – A34 – Newtownbutler – Lisnaskea – Tamlaght – A4 – Enniskillen – A32 – Irvinestown – A35 – Kesh – border – Pettigo – Laghey – (to Donegal via T18) |N3 |
T36
|Abbeyleix – Durrow – Cullahill – Urlingford – Turnpike (multiplex with T19) – Horse and Jockey – Cashel – Golden – Tipperary – Emly – Kilmallock – Charleville – Drumcolliher – Feohanagh – Newcastle West – Abbeyfeale (multiplex with T28) – Duagh – Listowel |N8 |
T37
|(Kilkenny) |Cashel – Dually – Ballinure – Laffansbridge – Killenaule – Ballingarry – Ballyline – Ballymack – (to Kilkenny via T6) |R691 |
T38
|Mitchelstown – Kildorrery – Mallow |N73 |
T39
|Roscommon – Ballymoe – Castlerea – Ballyhaunis – Claremorris – Balla – Castlebar – Westport – Louisburgh |N60 |
T40
|(Sligo) |(Sligo) – Ballysadare – Beltra – Dromore West – Easky – Rathlee – Kilglass – Enniscrone – Corraun – Ballina – Foxford – Strade – Bellavary – Castlebar – Ballintubber – Partry – Ballinrobe – Kilmaine – Shrule – Headford – Galway |N59 |
T41
|(Dublin) – Enfield – Edenderry – Daingean – Ballinagar – Clonmore – Cappincur – Tullamore – Screggan – Blue Ball – Kilcormac – Birr – Riverstown – Pike – Portland – Portumna – Power's Cross – Gorteeny – Mountshannon – Scariff – Tuamgraney – Bodyke – Moymore – Spancil Hill – Ennis – Darragh – Caherea – Lissycasey – Knockalough – Kilrush |R402 |
T42
|Clash |Dublin – Templeogue – Tallaght – Brittas – Blessington – Baltinglass – Rathvilly – Tullow – Clash – (joined T16) |N81 |
T43
|(Bray) |Dublin – Milltown – Windy Arbour – Dundrum – Sandyford – Stepaside – Kiltiernan – Enniskerry – Fassaroe – (Bray) |R117 |
T44
|(Shankill) |Dublin – Ballsbridge – Merrion – Booterstown – Blackrock – Monkstown – Dún Laoghaire – Dalkey – Killiney – (Shankill) – (to Bray via T7) |R118 |
T45
|(Newry) |Clones – Killeevan – Newbliss – Ballybay – Castleblayney – Milltown – border – (to Newtownhamilton and Newry via A25) |R183 |
T46
|Carrickmacross – Ballybay |R180 |
T47
|(Athlone) |Tullamore – Clara – Moate – (to Athlone via T4) |N80 |
T48
|Durrow – Ballycolla – Aghaboe – Sentry Hill – (to Borris in Ossory and Roscrea via T5) |R434 |
T49
|Cashel – Rosegreen – Ballyclerahan – Clonmel |R688 |
T50
|(Limerick) |Mitchelstown – Ballylanders – Knocklong – Hospital – Herbertstown (multiplexed with T57) – Caherconlish – Beary's Cross – (to Limerick via T13) |R513 |
T50a
|(Limerick) |Kilmallock – Bruff – Holy Cross – nr Ballybricken – (to Limerick via T57) |R512 |
T51
|(Dublin – Naas) – Kilcullen – Timolin – Moone – Castledermot – Carlow – Leighlinbridge – Paulstown – Kilkenny |N9 |
T52
|(Drumsna) |(Drumsna) – Annaduff – Mohill – Cloone Grange – Carrigallen – Killeshandra – Milltown Abbey – Lisnamaine – Kilconney – Belturbet – Sugarloaf – Gannons Cross – joined T10-T35 multiplex |R201 |
T53
|Dromod – Mohill – Garvagh – Fenagh – Ballinamore – Gortmore – Swanlinbar – border – (to Enniskillen via A32 and A4) |R202 |
T54
|Carrick on Shannon – Leitrim – Drumgorman – Drumshanbo – Tarmon – Drumkeeran – Killarga – Manorhamilton – Glenade – Kinlough – Bundoran |R280 |
T55
|(Carrick on Shannon) – Drumheckil – Keshcarrigan – Fenagh – joined T53 |R209 |
T56
|(Kilkenny) |Carrick on Suir – Ballinacluna – (Kilkenny via T6) |R696 |
T57
|Emly |Limerick – Ballyneety – nr Ballybricken – Mohane – Herbertstown – Hospital (multiplexed with T50) – Emly (joined T36) |R512 |
T58
|Ballina – Crossmolina – Bellacorick – Bangor Erris – Bunnahowen – Belmullet |N59 |
T59
|(Derry) |Stranorlar – Kilross – Letterkenny – Manorcunningham – Newtown Cunningham – Speenoge – Bridge End – border – (to Derry via A2) |N56 (now N13) |
T60
|(Letterkenny) |(Letterkenny) – nr Corkey – Lifford – border – A38 – Strabane – (to Derry and Dublin via A5) |N14 |
T61
|(Bray) |(Bray) – Kilmacanogue – Killough – Roundwood – Annamoe – Laragh – Rathdrum |R755 |
T62
|(Dundalk) |(Omeath) |(Dundalk) – Ballymascanlan – The Bush – Carlingford – Omeath – Cornamucklagh – border – (to Newry via B79) |R173 |
T63
|Waterford – Tramore – Annestown – Knockmahon – Bunmahon – Stradbally – Dungarvan |R675 |
T64
|(Bantry) |Macroom – Kilbarry – Inchigeelagh – Ballingeary – Kealkill – Ballylickey – (to Bantry via T65) |R584 |
T65
|Cork |Killarney – Kenmare – Glengarriff – Bantry – Scart – Aghaville – Drimoleague – Dunmanway – Enniskeane – Bandon – Inishannon – Halfway – Cork |N71 |
T66
|Tralee – Castlemaine – Killorglin – Glenbeigh – Cahirciveen – Waterville – Caherdaniel – Sneem – Parknasilla – Kenmare (part of Ring of Kerry route) |N70 |
T67
|Killorglin – Killarney (part of Ring of Kerry route) |N72 |
T68
|Limerick – Kildimo – Askeaton – Foynes – Tarbert – Listowel – Tralee – Camp – Annascaul – Dingle |N69 |
T69
|Kilcolgan – Kinvara – Ballyvaughan – Lisdoonvarna – Ennistymon – Lahinch – Milltown Malbay – Quilty – Doonbeg – Kilkee – Kilrush |N67 |
T70
|Ennistymon – Ennis |N85 |
T71
|Galway – Moycullen – Oughterard – Maam Cross – Recess – Clifden – Letterfrack – Kylemore Abbey – Leenane – Carrowkennedy – Liscarney – Westport – Newport – Mulrany – Ballycroy – Bangor Erris |N59 |
T72
|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 |
T72a
|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
|(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 |R501 |
T77
|Longford – Strokestown – Tulsk – Frenchpark – Ballaghaderreen – Charlestown – Swinford – Foxford |N5 |
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External links
- Ireland: Road Map Highlighting the Major Terrain Obstacles (1940) [https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~279290~90055212:Ireland--Road-Map-Highlighting-the-?sort=pub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_date%2Cpub_list_no%2Cseries_no Northern Sheet] and [https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~279291~90055211:Ireland--Road-Map-Highlighting-the-?sort=pub_list_no_initialsort%2Cpub_date%2Cpub_list_no%2Cseries_no Southern Sheet] [roads numbered and delineated — T and L in red and green respectively] made by Oberkommando der Wehrmacht; digitised from David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
{{Roads in Ireland}}
Category:Lists of roads in Ireland
Category:Roads in the Republic of Ireland
fr:Liste des autoroutes d'Irlande
ga:Bóithre agus mótarbhealaí in Éirinn