AARoads:Republic of Ireland

Ireland
Dedicated to the highways and roadways of Ireland

Resources

• National primary roads
• 1994 regional roads
• 2006 regional roads
• 2018 regional roads
• Lists of local roads (probably not notable)
• Ministry
• Irish Times - archives [1] (unclear how far back it goes or if you will have to pay at some point) - British Newspaper Archives has up to 1910 (but goal is to go to 1985) - Newspapers.com has it up to 1889
• Irish Examiner - on Irish Newspaper Archives (in a few US libraries) - also pay https://www.irishexaminer.com/archive/
• NewspaperArchive does have some smaller papers
• GIS site
• SABRE
• routelog as of 2015

Legislation

Motorways

• S.I. No. 279/2008 - Roads Act 2007 (Declaration of Motorways) Order 2008 Designates several intercity HQDCs as motorways
• S.I. No. 255/2009 - Roads Act 2007 (Declaration of Motorways) Order 2009 Mass redesignation
• S.I. No. 273/2015 - Roads Act 2007 (Declaration of Motorways) Order 2015. M11 Ashford to Arklow

National Roads

• S.I. No. 164/1977 - Local Government (Roads and Motorways) Act, 1974 (Declaration of National Roads) Order, 1977. (creates N1-N25, N51-N83)
• S.I. No. 277/1980 - Local Government (Roads and Motorways) Act, 1974 (Declaration of National Roads) Order, 1980. (creates N84-N85 and amends others)
• S.I. No. 108/1986 - Local Government (Roads and Motorways) Act, 1974 (Declaration of National Roads) Order, 1986. (creates N86)
• S.I. No. 209/1994 - Roads Act, 1993 (Declaration of National Roads) Order, 1994. (revokes previous 3 orders, recreates previous routes but renumbers N57 as N26, N64 as N18, N79 as N30; creates N27, N28, N29, N31, N50 and N87 and proposes further new-built National Primary Roads)
• S.I. No. 49/1995 - Roads Act, 1993 (Declaration of National Roads) Order, 1995. (adds another proposed national primary road)
• S.I. No. 347/1996 - Roads Act, 1993 (Declaration of National Roads) Order, 1996. (creates N32)
• S.I. No. 26/2003 - Roads Act, 1993 (Classification of National Roads) (Kilcock - Kinnegad Route) Order, 2003 (classifies proposed road as a national road)
• S.I. No. 249/2004 - Roads Act, 1993 (Classification of National Roads) (Fermoy, Rathcormac and Watergrasshill Bypass) Order, 2004 (classifies proposed road as a national road)
• S.I. No. 18/2004 - Roads Act 1993 (Classification of National Roads) (Gormanston To Dundalk Route and Dundalk Western Bypass) Order 2004 (two proposed roads classified as N1)
• S.I. No. 187/2006 - Roads Act 1993 (Classification of National Roads) Order 2006 (revokes all active orders, recreates N1-N33, N50-N87 (minus the missing routes), designates some proposed roads)
• S.I. No. 53/2012 - Roads Act 1993 (Classification of National Roads) Order 2012. (same redo process again, N32 and N82 go, N40 created)
• S.I. No. 131/2016 - Roads Act 1993 (Classification of National Roads) (Smithstown-Shannon Airport) Order 2016. (extends N19 description)
• S.I. No. 434/2018 - Roads Act 1993 (Classification of National Roads) (Amendment) Order 2018 (reworks N17, N18, N63, N67, N83 due to M17/M18 construction)
• S.I. No. 576/2019 - Roads Act 1993 (Classification of National Roads) (Amendment) Order 2019 (N11, N25 and N30 reworked due to Enniscorthy and New Ross bypasses)
• S.I. No. 436/2023 - Roads Act 1993 (Classification of National Roads) (Amendment) Order 2023 (N5, N59, N60, N84 changed due to Castlebar bypass)
• S.I. No. 130/2024 - Roads Act 1993 (Classification of National Roads) (Amendment) Order 2024 (N22 and N78 changed)

Regional Roads

• S.I. No. 400/1994 - Roads Act, 1993 (Declaration of Regional Roads) Order, 1994. (creates all regional roads)
• S.I. No. 19/2004 - Roads Act 1993 (Classification of Regional Roads) (Redcow To N52 Link Road) Order 2004 (classifies a proposal road as a regional road)
• S.I. No. 188/2006 - Roads Act 1993 (Classification of Regional Roads) Order 2006 (redo of all regional roads)
• S.I. No. 54/2012 - Roads Act 1993 (Classification of Regional Roads) Order 2012. (redo of all regional roads)
• S.I. No. 435/2018 - Roads Act 1993 (Classification of Regional Roads) (Amendment) Order 2018 (changes to R332, R333, R338, R350, R351, R353, R354, R380, R381, R446, R458, R460, R939 and R942, deletion of R923)
• S.I. No. 577/2019 - Roads Act 1993 (Classification of Regional Roads) (Amendment) Order 2019 (changes linked to New Ross and Enniscorthy bypasses - R700, R702, R704, R714, R723, R728, R729, R744, R745, R754, R772, R890)
• S.I. No. 12/2021 - Roads Act 1993 (Classification of Regional Roads) (Amendment) Order 2021 (R286, R291, R292, R869, R870 Sligo changes)
• S.I. No. 437/2022 - Roads Act 1993 (Classification of Regional Roads) (Amendment) Order 2022 (R444 tweak)
• S.I. No. 437/2023 - Roads Act 1993 (Classification of Regional Roads) (Amendment) Order 2023 (R307, R308, R309, R310, R311, R330, R407, R917 - Castlebar bypass and tweak R407)
• S.I. No. 131/2024 - Roads Act 1993 (Classification of Regional Roads) (Amendment) Order 2024 (R428, R582, R584, R618)