Title: Roads in Ireland - Wikipedia
Headings: Roads in Ireland
Roads in Ireland
Contents
History
Roads in the Republic of Ireland
Motorways
Planned motorways
National primary roads
National secondary roads
Alternative National roads
Regional roads
Local roads
Old system
Former major trunk roads in Ireland and current equivalents
Roads in Northern Ireland
European routes
See also
References
External links

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Roads in Ireland
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Overview of roads in Ireland
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. These roads have been developed and modernised over centuries, from trackways suitable only for walkers and horses, to surfaced roads including modern motorways. The major routes were established before Irish independence and consequently take little cognisance of the border other than a change of identification number and street furniture. Northern Ireland has had motorways since 1962, and has a well-developed network of primary, secondary and local routes. The Republic started work on its motorway network in the early 1980s; and historically, the road network there was once somewhat less well developed. However, the Celtic Tiger economic boom and an influx of European Union structural funding, saw national roads and regional roads in the Republic come up to international standard quite quickly. In the mid-1990s, for example, the Republic went from having only a few short sections of motorway to a network of motorways, dual carriageways and other improvements on most major routes as part of a National Development Plan.