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Ireland.Motorways shown in blue, primary roads (N, A) shown in green. (OpenStreetMap mapping)The island of Ireland, comprising Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, has an extensive network of tens of thousands of kilometres of public roads, usually surfaced.
In Ireland, the highest category of road is a motorway (mótarbhealach, plural: mótarbhealaí), indicated by the prefix M followed by a one- or two-digit number (the number of the national route of which each motorway forms a part). The motorway network consists entirely of motorway-grade dual carriageways and is largely focused upon Dublin.
New roads had to be at least 30 feet (9.1 metres) wide between fences and drains, with a 14 feet (4.3 metres) wide gravelled surface. In 1777, maintenance contracts, allowing for regular maintenance, were established. Taylor and Skinner's Maps of the Roads of Ireland was first published in 1778, with a second, revised edition in 1783. It ...
Historically, land owners developed most roads and later turnpike trusts collected tolls so that as early as 1800 Ireland had a 16,100 kilometres (10,000 mi) road network. [7] In 2005 the Irish Government launched Transport 21 , a plan envisaging the investment of €34 billion in transport infrastructure from 2006 until 2015. [ 8 ]
L4202 local road sign. A local road (Irish: Bóthar Áitiúil) in the Republic of Ireland is a public road not classified as a national primary road, national secondary road, or regional road but nevertheless forming a link in the national network of roads. Local roads are numbered with four- or five-digit route numbers, prefixed by "L" (for ...
A national secondary road ( Irish: Bóthar Náisiúnta den Dara Grád) is a category of road in Ireland. These roads form an important part of the national route network but are secondary to the main arterial routes which are classified as national primary roads. National secondary roads are designated with route numbers higher than those used ...
The N17 road is a national primary road in Ireland, and is part of the Atlantic Corridor route. [1] It begins in County Galway and ends in County Sligo.On 27 September 2017 the southern, Tuam–Galway, section was upgraded to motorway status and designated M17.
Regional. The M50 motorway (Irish: Mótarbhealach M50) is a C-shaped orbital motorway in Dublin and the busiest motorway in Ireland. The current route was built in various sections over the course of 27 years, from 1983 to 2010. It begins at Dublin Port, running northward through the Dublin Port Tunnel and along a portion of the Airport ...