S.I. No. 42/1968:

ROAD TRAFFIC (SPEED LIMITS) (COUNTY OF LAOIGHIS) REGULATIONS, 1968.

ROAD TRAFFIC (SPEED LIMITS) (COUNTY OF LAOIGHIS) REGULATIONS, 1968.

The Minister for Local Government in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 5 , 45 and 46 of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 (No. 24 of 1961) and as respects article 7 after consultation with the Commissioner of the Garda Síochána and the road authority concerned and as respects article 5 on the application of the said Commissioner hereby makes the following Regulations:--

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic (Speed Limits) (County of Laoighis) Regulations, 1968.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of April, 1968.

3. In these Regulations save where the context otherwise requires

"the Act" means the Road Traffic Act, 1961 ;

"road" means a public road;

"perimeter road" means a road on and along the roadway of which there runs the boundary of a county or other borough, an urban district or a town;

"special speed limit" and "built-up area speed limit" have the meanings respectively assigned to them in Part IV of the Act;

"distance" means distance as measured along the centre line of a road.

4. (1) Each of the roads described in the First Schedule to these Regulations is hereby declared not to be a public road in a built-up area for the purposes of section 45 of the Act.

(2) Each of the roads described in the Second Schedule to these Regulations is hereby declared to be a public road in a built-up area for the purposes of section 45 of the Act.

5. (1) Forty miles per hour shall be the speed limit for mechanically propelled vehicles on the roads specified in the Third Schedule to these Regulations.

(2) Fifty miles per hour shall be the speed limit for mechanically propelled vehicles on the roads specified in the Fourth Schedule to these Regulations.

6. There shall be excepted from the special speed limits prescribed in article 5 of these Regulations and from the built-up area speed limit the following:--

(a) ambulances,

(b) fire brigade vehicles, and

(c) vehicles used by members of the Garda Síochána in the performance of their duties as such members.

7. Articles 5 and 6 of the Road Traffic (Speed Limits) Regulations. 1963 ( S.I. No. 18 of 1963 ) in so far as they relate to roads in the County of Laoighis are hereby revoked.

FIRST SCHEDULE

Roads declared not to be public roads in a built-up area for the purposes of Section 45 of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 .

1. The following roads in the town of Mountmellick::--

(a) Manor Lane, New Road.

(b) Manor Street and its continuation as the Mountrath Road between the town boundary and a point 125 yards south-west of the junction of Manor Street with Wolfe Tone Street.

(c) Wolfe Tone Street and its continuation as the Birr Road between the town boundary and a point 25 yards north-west of the centre-point of Pound Bridge.

(d) The Bay Road between the town boundary and a point 60 yards north-east of its junction with Chapel Street.

(e) The Dublin Road between the town boundary and a point 60 yards east of its junction with the Borness Road.

(f) Ridge Road between the town boundary and a point 150 yards south-east of its junction with Connolly Street.

2. The following roads in the town of Portlaoighise:--

(a) The Stradbally Road for a distance of 285 yards from the town boundary.

(b) The Well Road for a distance of 300 yards from the point where the town boundary intersects the eastern side of the road.

(c) The Abbeyleix Road between the town boundary and a point 35 yards south of its junction with Marian Place.

(d) The Mountmellick Road between the town boundary and a point 50 yards north-west of its junction with Harpur's Lane.

(e) The Borris Road where the said road is a perimeter road.

SECOND SCHEDULE

Roads declared to be public roads in a built-up area for the purposes of section 45 of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 .

1. The following roads at Abbeyleix:--

(a) Sandy Lane, Temperance Street, Church Avenue, Market Square.

(b) The Portlaoighise-Cork road between a point 105 yards north of its junction with the Ballyroan Road and a point 150 yards south-west of its junction with the Station Road.

(c) The Ballyroan Road for a distance of 250 yards from its junction with the Portlaoighise-Cork road.

(d) The Ballanakill Road for a distance of 490 yards from its junction with the Portlaoighise-Cork road.

(e) The Station Road for a distance of 75 yards from its junctior with the Portlaoighise-Cork road.

(f) New Row and its continuation as the Mountrath Road between the junction of New Row with the Portlaoighise-Cork road and a point 10 yards south-east of the junction of the Mountrath Road with the Tullyroe Road.

2. The following roads at Ballacolla:--

(a) The Borris-in-Osorry-Durrow road between a point 100 yards north-west of its junction with the Abbeyleix-Rathdowney road and a point 300 yards south-east of the said junction.

(b) The Abbeyleix-Rathdowney road between a point 250 yards north-east of its junction with the Borris-in-Ossory-Durrow road and a point 300 yards south-west of the said junction.

3. The following road adjacent to the Urban District of Carlow:--

The Numbers Road for a distance of 120 yards from the boundary of the Urban District of Carlow.

4. The following roads at Castletown:--

(a) The Green.

(b) The Dublin-Limerick road between a point 95 yards north of its junction with the Green and a point 160 yards east of its junction with the Danganroe Road.

(c) The Kilbricken Road for a distance of 150 yards from its junction with the Green.

5. The following roads at Clonaslee :--

(a) The Mountmellick-Birr road between a point 300 yards south-east of its junction with the Tullamore Road and a point 270 yards north-west of the said junction.

(b) The Tullamore Road for a distance of 330 yards from its junction with the Mountmellick-Birr road.

(c) The Gorrough Road for a distance of 50 yards from its junction with the Mountmellick-Birr road.

(d) The Brittas Road for a distance of 25 yards from its junction with the Mountmellick-Birr road.

6. The following roads at Durrow:--

All roads in the area enclosed by a line commencing at a point on the Dublin Road 25 yards south-west of its junction with the Ballacolla Road and drawn thence in straight lines successively to the following points:--

(a) a point on the Ballyragget Road 265 yards south of its junction with the Derry Road,

(b) the southwesternmost point of St. Fintan's Terrace,

(c) a point on the Derry Road 40 yards south of its junction with the Ballyragget Road,

(d) a point on the Cork Road 450 yards south-west of the junction of Patrick Street with Oldchapel Street,

(e) the westernmost point of the Square,

and from the last-mentioned point in a straight line to the commencement point on the Dublin Road.

7. The following road adjacent to the town of Mountmellick:--

The Tullamore Road for a distance of 60 yards from the boundary of the town of Mountmellick.

8. The following roads at Mountrath:--

(a) Market Square, St. Fintan's Terrace.

(b) The Dublin-Limerick road between a point 120 yards east of its junction with Church Street and a point 120 yards south-west of its junction with the Derrycanton Road.

(c) Church Street and its continuation as Mary Street for a distance of 400 yards from the junction of Church Street with the Dublin-Limerick road.

(d) The Rushin Road between its junction with Church Street and the western end of Rushin Bridge.

(e) The Derrycanton Road for a distance of 100 yards from its junction with the Dublin-Limerick road.

(f) Shannon Street and its continuation as the Abbeyleix Road between the junction of Shannon Street with Market Square and a point 330 yards south-east of the junction of the Abbeyleix Road with St. Fintan's Terrace.

(g) Shannon Road for a distance of 50 yards from its junction with Shannon Street.

9. The following roads at Portarlington:--

(a) Church Lane, Congress Terrace, Main Street, Marian Hill Road, Market Square, Sandy Lane, St. Brigid's Square, St. Michael's Park, Crow Lane.

(b) French Church Street and its continuation to the boundary between the counties of Laoighis and Offaly at the Barrow Bridge.

(c) Spa Lane and its continuation as the Edenderry Road between its junction with Market Square and a point 25 yards south of the junction of the Edenderry Road with the Droughill Road.

(d) Bracklone Street and its continuation as the Dublin Road between the junction of Bracklone Street with Station Road and a point 600 yards south-east of the said junction.

(e) Railway Road for a distance of 620 yards from its junction with Bracklone Street.

(f) The Ballymorris Road for a distance of 80 yards from its junction with Sandy Lane.

(g) Foxcroft Lane and its continuation as the Portlaoighise Road between a point 100 yards south of its junction with Sandy Lane and the junction of Foxcroft Lane with Main Street.

10. The following roads adjacent to the town of Portlaoighise:--

(a) Marian Place, Harpur's Lane.

(b) The Dublin Road for a distance of 105 yards from the boundary of the town of Portlaoighise.

(c) The Knockmay Road for a distance of 550 yards from the boundary of the town of Portlaoighise.

(d) The Mountrath Road for a distance of 150 yards from the point where the boundary of the town of Portlaoighise intersects the southern side of the road.

(e) The Ridge Road where the said road is a perimeter road.

11. The following roads at Rathdowney:--

(a) Cascade Street, Chapel Street, Mill Street, The New Line, O'Daly Terrace, Ossory Terrace, The Square.

(b) Moore Street and its continuation as the Mooreville Road between the junction of Moore Street with Chapel Street and a point 20 yards east of the junction of the Mooreville Road with the Donaghmore Road.

(c) The Templetuohy Road between its junction with Pound Street and a point 50 yards south-west of its southern junction with O'Daly Terrace.

(d) Pound Street and its continuation as the Johnstown Road between the junction of Pound Street with the Square and a point 150 yards south of the junction of the Johnstown Road with the New Line.

(e) The Kilcoran Road for a distance of 25 yards from its junction with the Johnstown Road.

(f) Church Street and its continuation as the Coneyburrow Road for a distance of 370 yards from the junction of Church Street with the Square.

12. The following roads at Stradbally:--

(a) Brockley Park Road, Courthouse Square, Church Lane.

(b) The Portlaoighise-Carlow road between a point 20 yards north-west of its junction with the Rathmore Road and a point 20 yards north-west of its junction with the Athy Road.

(c) The Rathmore Road for a distance of 50 yards from its junction with the Portlaoighise-Carlow road.

(d) The Vicarstown Road for a distance of 230 yards from its junction with the Portlaoighise-Carlow road.

(e) The Timahoe Road for a distance of 50 yards from its junction with Courthouse Square.

THIRD SCHEDULE

Roads in respect of which a special speed limit of 40 miles per hour is prescribed.

1. The following road at Ballybrittas:--

The Dublin-Portlaoighise road between a point 100 yards north-east of its junction with the Portarlington Road and a point 300 yards south-west of the said junction.

2. The following roads at Ballylynan :--

(a) The Castlecomer-Athy road between a point 270 yards south-west of its junction with the Castletown Road and a point 150 yards north-east of its junction with the Kilmoroney Road.

(b) The Castletown Road for a distance of 170 yards from its junction with the Castlecomer-Athy road.

(c) The road connecting the Castletown Road with the Castlecomer-Athy road.

(d) The Rahin Road for a distance of 75 yards from its junction with the Castlecomer-Athy road.

(e) The Kilmoroney Road for a distance of 75 yards from its junction with the Castlecomer-Athy road.

3. The following roads at Borris-in-Ossory:--

(a) The Dublin-Limerick road between a point 120 yards east of its junction with the Rathdowney Road and a point 140 yards west of its junction with the Skeirke Road.

(b) The Rathdowney Road for a distance of 100 yards from its junction with the Dublin-Limerick road.

(c) The Skeirke Road for a distance of 100 yards from its junction with the Dublin-Limerick road.

(d) The Mondrehid or Rock Road for a distance of 50 yards north-west of its junction with the Dublin-Limerick road.

4. The following road adjacent to the Urban District of Carlow:--

The Castlecomer Road for a distance of 340 yards from the point where the boundary of the Urban District of Carlow intersects the southern side of the road.

5. The following roads at Mountrath:--

(a) The Limerick Road between a point 120 yards south-west of its junction with the Derrycanton Road and a point 420 yards south-west of the said junction.

(b) The Dublin Road between a point 120 yards east of its junction with Church Street and a point 500 yards east of the said junction.

6. The following roads in and adjacent to the town of Portlaoighise:--

(a) O'Moore Place.

(b) The Dublin Road between a point 105 yards north-east of the boundary of the town of Portlaoighise and a point 1,395 yards north-east of the said boundary.

(c) The Mountmellick Road between a point 340 yards north-west of the point where the boundary of the town of Portlaoighise intersects the western side of the road and a point 50 yards north-west of its junction with Harpur's Lane.

(d) The Ballyfin Road for a distance of 100 yards from its junction with the Mountmellick Road.

FOURTH SCHEDULE

Roads in respect of which a special speed limit of 50 m.p.h. is prescribed.

The following roads at Cullohill:--

(a) The Dublin-Cork road between a point 325 yards north-east of its junction with the Rathdowney Road and a point 225 yards south-west of the said junction.

(b) The Graiguevoice Road between its junction with the Dublin-Cork road and a point 10 yards south-east of its junction with the road connecting the Graiguevoice Road with the Dublin-Cork road.

(c) The road connecting the Graiguevoice road with the Dublin-Cork road.

(d) The Rathdowney Road for a distance of 60 yards from its junction with the Dublin-Cork road.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government this 26th day

of February, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty-Eight.

CAOIMHGHÍN Ó BEOLÁIN,

Aire Rialtais Áitiúil.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations replace the Road Traffic (Speed Limits) Regulations, 1963 and 1965, in their application to the County of Laoighis and alter the speed limits applicable to certain roads in this area.

The Regulations exclude the public roads mentioned in the First Schedule from the scope of the built-up area speed limit prescribed by section 45 of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 , and declare the public roads mentioned in the Second Schedule to be subject to that speed limit.

The Regulations also prescribe a speed limit of 40 miles per hour in respect of the public roads mentioned in the Third Schedule and one of 50 miles per hour in respect of the public roads mentioned in the Fourth Schedule.

Ambulances, fire brigade vehicles and Garda Síochána vehicles while being used in the course of duty are excepted from all speed limits by the Regulations.