S.I. No. 72/1986:

ROAD TRAFFIC (SPEED LIMITS) (COUNTY OF LAOIGHIS) REGULATIONS, 1986.

ROAD TRAFFIC (SPEED LIMITS) (COUNTY OF LAOIGHIS) REGULATIONS, 1986.

The Minister for the Environment in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 5 and 45 of the Road Traffic Act, 1961 (No. 24 of 1961) and section 46 of the said Act as amended by section 25 of the Road Traffic Act, 1968 (No. 25 of 1968) hereby makes the following Regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic (Speed Limits) (County of Laoighis) Regulations, 1986.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 15^th day of April, 1986.

3. In these Regulations save where the context otherwise requires

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

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

"national road" means a road declared to be a national road in the Local Government (Roads and Motorways) Act, 1974 (Declaration of National Roads) Order, 1977 ( S.I. No. 164 of 1977 ) and any reference to the number of such road shall be a reference to the number of such road as shown in column 1 of the First Schedule or column 1 of the Second Schedule to the aforementioned order;

"perimeter road" means a road on and along the roadway of which there runs the boundary of a town;

"road" means a public road;

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

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

6. There shall be excepted from the special speed limit prescribed in article 5 of these Regulations and from the build-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. The Road Traffic (Speed Limits) (County of Laoighis) Regulations, 1977 ( S.I. No. 394 of 1977 ) are hereby revoked.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Roads in the County of Laoighis 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.

(b) Manor Street and its continuation as the Mountrath Road between the town boundary and a point 115 metres south-west of the junction of Manor Street with Wolfe Tone Street.

(c) The Bay Road between the point where the town boundary intersects the south-eastern side and a point 55 metres north-east of its junction with Chapel Street.

(d) The Dublin Road between the town boundary and a point 55 metres east of its junction with the Borness Road.

2. The following roads in the town of Portlaoighise:

(a) The Abbeyleix Road (National Road N8) between the town boundary and a point 120 metres south of its junction with Marian Place.

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

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Roads in the County of Laoighis 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 (National Road N8) between a point 96 metres north of its junction with the Ballyroan Road and a point 380 metres south-west of its junction with the Rathdowney Road.

(c) The Ballyroan Road for a distance of 625 metres north-east of its junction with the Portlaoighise-Cork road (National Road N8).

(d) The Carlow Road for a distance of 448 metres from its junction with the Portlaoighise-Cork road (National Road N8).

(e) The Rathdowney Road for a distance of 70 metres from its junction with the Portlaoighise-Cork road (National Road N8).

(f) New Row and its continuation as the Mountrath Road between the junction of New Row with the Portlaoighise-Cork road (National Road N.8) and a point 10 metres south-east of the junction of the Mountrath Road with the Tullyroe Road.

(g) The Ballymullen Road for a distance of 225 metres from its junction with the Portlaoighise-Cork road (National Road N8).

2. The following roads at Ballacolla:

(a) The Borris-in-Ossory-Durrow road between a point 92 metres north-west of its junction with the Abbeyleix-Rathdowney road and a point 275 metres south-east of the said junction.

(b) The Abbeyleix-Rathdowney road between a point 230 metres north-east of its junction with the Borris-in-Ossory-Durrow road and a point 275 metres south-west of the said junction.

3. The following roads at Ballinakill:

All roads in the area enclosed by a line commencing at a point on the Abbeyleix Road 545 metres north of its junction with Bride Street and drawn thence in straight lines successively to the following points:

(a) a point on Bride Street 280 metres east of its junction with the Abbeyleix Road,

(b) a point on Durrow Road 60 metres east of its junction with Stanhope Street,

(c) a point on Graveyard Street 75 metres south of its junction with Kilkenny Street,

(d) a point on Kilkenny Street 375 metres south-east of its junction with Graveyard Street,

(e) a point on Chapel Street 35 metres north-west of its junction with Kilcronan Road,

and from the last mentioned point in a straight line to the commencement point of the Abbeyleix Road.

4. The following roads at Ballyroan:

(a) The Portlaoighise-Ballinlough Road between a point 205 metres north of its junction with the Colt Road and a point 240 metres south-west of its junction with the Swan Road.

(b) The Colt Road for a distance of 170 metres from its junction with the Portlaoighise-Ballinlough Road.

(c) The Swan Road for a distance of 620 metres from its junction with the Portlaoighise-Ballinlough Road.

(d) The Abbeyleix Road for a distance of 120 metres from its junction with the Portlaoighise-Ballinlough Road.

5. The following roads at Borris-in-Ossary:

(a) The Dublin-Limerick road (National Road N7) between a point 110 metres east of its junction with the Rathdowney Road and a point 128 metres north-west of its junction with the Skeirke Road.

(b) The Rathdowney Road for a distance of 92 metres from its junction with the Dublin-Limerick road (National Road N7).

(c) The Skeirke Road for a distance of 92 metres from its junction with the Dublin-Limerick road (National Road N7).

(d) The Mondrehid or Rock Road for a distance of 46 metres north-west of its junction with the Dublin-Limerick road (National Road N7).

6. The following roads adjacent to the Urban District of Carlow:

(a) The Numbers Road for a distance of 110 metres from the boundary of the urban district of Carlow.

(b) The Crosneen Road for a distance of 305 metres from the boundary of the urban district of Carlow.

(c) The Castlecomer Road for a distance of 275 metres from the boundary of the urban district of Carlow.

(d) The Portlaoighise Road (National Road N80) for a distance of 375 metres from the boundary of the urban district of Carlow.

7. The following roads at Castletown:

(a) The Green.

(b) The Dublin-Limerick road (National Road N7) between a point 87 metres north of its junction with the Green and a point 147 metres east of its junction with the Danganroe Road.

(c) The Kilbricken Road for a distance of 138 metres from its junction with the Green.

8. The following roads at Clonaslee:

(a) The Mountmellick-Birr road between a point 5 metres west of its junction with the Cut Road and a point 455 metres north-west of its junction with the Tullamore road.

(b) The Tullamore Road for a distance of 302 metres from its junction with the Mountmellick-Birr road.

(c) The Gorrough Road for a distance of 46 metres from its junction with the Mountmellick-Birr road.

(d) The Brittas Road for a distance of 23 metres from its junction with the Mountmellick-Birr road.

9. The following roads at Durrow:

All roads in the area enclosed by a line commencing at a point on the Dublin Road (National Road N8) 150 metres north-east 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 (National Road N77) 390 metres south-east of its junction with the Derry Road,

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

(c) a point on the Derry Road 37 metres south of its junction with the Ballyragget Road (National Road N77),

(d) a point on the Cork Road (National Road N8) 412 metres 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 (National Road N8).

10. The following roads at Emo:

All roads in the area enclosed by a line commencing at a point on the Coolbanagher Road 457 metres from its junction with the New Inn-Mountmellick road and drawn thence in straight lines successively to the following points:

(a) a point on the Mountmellick Road 320 metres from its junction with the Coolbanagher Road,

(b) a point on the Emo Park Road 70 metres from its junction with the Mountmellick Road,

(c) a point on the New Inn Road 185 metres from its junction with the Coolbanagher Road,

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

11. The following roads adjacent to the town of Mountmellick:

(a) The Tullamore Road (National Road N80) for a distance of 266 metres from the boundary of the town of Mountmellick.

(b) The Birr Road for a distance of 320 metres from the boundary of the town of Mountmellick.

(c) The Ridge Road for a distance of 435 metres from the boundary of the town of Mountmellick.

12. The following roads at Mountrath:

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

(b) The Dublin-Limerick road (National Road N7) between a point 330 metres east of its junction with Church Street and a point 229 metres south-west of its junction with the Derrycanton Road.

(c) Church Street and its continuation as Mary Street for a distance of 366 metres from the junction of Church Street with the Dublin-Limerick road (National Road N7).

(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 92 metres from its junction with the Dublin-Limerick road (National Road N7).

(f) Shannon Street and its continuation as the Abbeyleix Road between the junction of Shannon Street with Market Square and a point 302 metres south-east of the junction of the Abbeyleix Road with St. Fintan's Terrace.

(g) Shannon Road for a distance of 503 metres from its junction with Shannon Street.

13. 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 Street and its continuation as the Edenderry Road between its junction with Market Square and a point 275 metres north-east of its junction with the Bishopswood Road.

(d) Bracklone Street and its continuation as the Dublin Road between the junction of Bracklone Street with Railway Road and a point 1,240 metres south-east of the said junction.

(e) Railway Road and its continuation as the Ballybrittas Road for a distance of 1,000 metres from its junction with Bracklone Street.

(f) The Ballymorris Road for a distance of 74 metres from its junction with Sandy Lane.

(g) Foxcroft Lane and its continuation as the Portlaoighise Road between its junction with Main Street and a point 92 metres south-west of its junction with Sandy Lane.

(h) The Droughill Road for a distance of 555 metres south-east of its junction with the Bishopswood Road.

(i) The Bishopswood Road for a distance of 875 metres from its junction with the Edenderry Road.

14. The following roads adjacent to the town of Portlaoighise:

(a) Marian Place, Harpur's lane, the Block Road.

(b) The Dublin Road (National Road N7) for a distance of 855 metres north-east of the point where the boundary of the town of Portlaoighise intersects the southern side of the road.

(c) The Knockmay Road for a distance of 503 metres from the boundary of the town of Portlaoighise.

(d) The Mountrath Road (National Road N7) for a distance of 137 metres from the point where the boundary of the town of Portlaoighise intersects the southern side of the road.

(e) The Ridge Road between the point where the boundary of the town of Portlaoighise intersects the eastern side of the road and a point 450 metres north-west of the said intersection.

(f) The Ballyfin Road for a distance of 384 metres from its junction with the Mountmellick Road.

(g) The Well Road for a distance of 440 metres from the point where the boundary of the town of Portlaoighise intersects the western side of the road.

(h) The Stradbally Road (National Road N80) for a distance of 1,220 metres east of the point where the boundary of the town of Portlaoighise intersects the southern side of the road.

(i) The Mountmellick Road (National Road N80) for a distance of 420 metres from the point where the boundary of the town of Portlaoighise intersects the western side of the town.

15. 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 metres east of the junction of the Mooreville Road with the Donaghmore Road.

(c) The Templetouhy Road between its junction with Pound Street and a point 380 metres 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 138 metres south of the junction of the Johnstown Road with the New Line.

(e) The Kilcoran Road for a distance of 23 metres from its junction with the Johnstown Road.

(f) Church Street and is continuation as the Coneyburrow Road for a distance of 865 metres from the junction of Church Street with the Square.

16. The following roads at Rosenallis:

(a) The Mountmellick-Clonaslee Road between a point 195 metres south-east of its junction with the Tullamore Road and a point 195 metres north-west of its junction with the Capard Road.

(b) The Capard Road for a distance of 195 metres from its junction with the Mountmellick-Clonaslee Road.

(c) The Tullamore Road for a distance of 430 metres from its junction with the Mountmellick-Clonaslee Road.

(d) The Rynn Road for a distance of 160 metres from its junction with the Tullamore Road.

17. The following roads at Stradbally,

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

(b) The Portlaoighise-Carlow road (National Road N80) between a point 135 metres north-west of its junction with the Rathmore Road and a point 160 metres south-east of its junction with the Athy Road.

(c) The Rathmore Road for a distance of 160 metres from its junction with the Portlaoighise-Carlow road (National Road N80).

(d) The Vicarstown Road for a distance of 211 metres from its junction with the Portlaoighise-Carlow road (National Road N80).

(e) The Timahoe Road for a distance of 46 metres from its junction with Courthouse Square.

(f) The Abbeyleix Road for a distance of 195 metres from its junction with Portlaoighise-Carlow road (National Road N80).

(g) The Athy Road for a distance of 135 metres from its junction with the Portlaoighise-Carlow road (National Road N80).

18. The following roads at The Swan:

(a) The Abbeyleix-Carlow road between a point 20 metres north of its junction with the Clogh-Wolfhill road and a point 550 metres south of the said junction.

(b) The Clogh Road for a distance of 65 metres from its junction with the Abbeyleix-Carlow road.

(c) The Wolfhill Road for a distance of 28 metres from its junction with the Abbeyleix-Carlow road.

19. The following roads at Timahoe:

All roads in the area enclosed by a line commencing at a point on the Portlaoighise Road 95 metres north-west of its junction with the Stradbally Road and drawn thence in straight lines successively to the following points:

(a) a point on Cremorgan Road 70 metres north-west of its junction with the Abbeyleix road,

(b) a point on the Abbeyleix Road 185 metres from its junction with the Portlaoighise road,

(c) a point on the Swan Road 185 metres south of its junction with the Stradbally Road,

(d) a point on the Luggacurran Road 70 metres south-east of its junction with the Square,

(e) a point on the Stradbally Road 270 metres north-east of its junction with the Portlaoighise Road.

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

THIRD SCHEDULE.

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

The following roads at Abbeyleix:

(a) The Portlaoighise Road (National Road N8) between a point 96 metres north of its junction with the Ballyroan Road and a point 462 metres north of the said junction.

(b) The Carlow Road between a point 448 metres from its junction with the Portlaoighise-Cork road (National Road N8) and a point 465 metres east of its junction with the Ballinakill Road.

(c) The Ballinakill Road for a distance of 248 metres from its junction with the Carlow Road.

(d) The Rathdowney Road between a point 70 metres from its junction with the Portlaoighise-Cork road (National Road N8) and a point 732 metres from the said junction.

(e) The Mountrath Road between a point 10 metres south-east of its junction with the Tullyroe Road and a point 421 metres north-west of the said junction.

(f) The Cork Road (National Road N8) between a point 138 metres south-west of its junction with the Rathdowney Road and a point 550 metres south-west of the said junction.

2. The following road at Arles:

The Carlow-Portlaoighise road (National Road N80) between a point 92 metres north of the intersection of the common boundary of the townlands of Rathillig and Ballynagall and a point 805 metres north of that intersecting point.

3. The following road at Ballybrittas:

The Dublin-Portlaoighise road (National Road N7) between a point 128 metres north-east of its junction with the Portarlington Road and a point 275 metres south-west of the said junction.

4. The following roads at Ballylynan:

(a) The Castlecomer-Athy road (National Road N7) between a point 46 metres south-west of its junction with Milltown Road and a point 138 metres north-east of its junction with the Kilmoroney Road.

(b) The Castletown Road for a distance of 156 metres from its junction with the Castlecomer-Athy road (National Road N78).

(c) The road connecting the Castletown road with the Castlecomer-Athy road (National Road N78).

(d) The Rahin Road for a distance of 530 metres from its junction with the Castlecomer-Athy road (National Road N78).

(e) The Kilmoroney Road for a distance of 70 metres from its junction with the Castlecomer-Athy road (National Road N78).

(f) The Milltown Road for a distance of 156 metres from its junction with the Castlecomer-Athy road (National Road N78).

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

The Castlecomer Road between a point 275 metres west of the boundary of the urban district of Carlow and a point 495 metres west of the said boundary.

6. The following roads at Cullohill:

(a) The Dublin-Cork road (National Road N8) between a point 298 metres north-east of its junction with the Rathdowney Road and a point 206 metres south-west of the said junction.

(b) The Graigueavoice Road between its junction with the Dublin-Cork road (National Road N8) and a point 10 metres south-east of its junction with the road connecting the Graigueavoice Road with the Dublin-Cork road (National Road N8).

(c) The road connecting the Graigueavoice road with the Dublin-Cork road (National Road N8).

(d) The Rathdowney Road for a distance of 55 metres from its junction with the Dublin-Cork road (National Road N8).

7. The following road at Durrow:

The Cork Road (National Road N8) between a point 412 metres south-west of the junction of Patrick Street and Oldchapel Street and a point 741 metres south-west of the said junction.

8. The following road adjacent to the town of Mountmellick:

The Ridge Road between a point 435 metres south-east of the boundary of the town of Mountmellick and a point 1,105 metres south-east of the said boundary.

9. The following roads at Mountrath:

(a) The Limerick Road (National Road N7) between a point 230 metres south-west of its junction with the Derrycanton Road and a point 608 metres south-west of the said junction.

(b) The Dublin Road (National Road N7) between a point 330 metres east of its junction with Church Street and a point 550 metres east of the said junction.

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

(a) O'Moore Place, Collier's Road, Father Browne Avenue.

(b) The Dublin Road (National Road N7) between a point 855 metres north-east of the point where the boundary of the town of Portlaoighise intersects the southern side of the road and a point 174 metres north-east of its junction with Collier's Road.

(c) The Mountmellick Road (National Road N80) between a point 420 metres north-west of the point where the boundary of the town of Portlaoighise intersects the western side of the road and a point 825 metres north-west of the said intersection.

(d) The Mountrath Road (National Road N7) between a point 137 metres west of the point where the boundary of the town of Portlaoighise intersects the southern side of the road and a point 28 metres from its junction with the road leading westwards from Boghlone Bridge to Ballyfin.

(e) The Abbeyleix Road (National Road N8) between a point 120 metres south of its junction with Marian Place and a point 1,085 metres south of the said junction.

(f) Watery Lane for a distance of 50 metres from its junction with Father Browne Avenue.

(g) The Knockmay Road between a point 503 metres south-west of the boundary of the town of Portlaoighise and its junction with Father Browne Avenue.

11. The following roads at Stradbally:

(a) The Carlow Road (National Road N80) between a point 160 metres south-east of its junction with the Athy Road and a point 355 metres south-east of the said junction.

(b) The Athy Road between a point 135 metres north-east of its junction with the Carlow Road (National Road N80) and a point 325 metres north-east of the said junction.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for the Environment this 21st

day of March, 1986.

JOHN BOLAND,

Minister for the Environment.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These Regulations replace the Road Traffic (Speed Limits) (County of Laoighis) Regulations, 1977 ( S.I. No. 394 of 1977 ) 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.

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