LegalizeS.I. No. 370/1977 - Road Traffic (Speed Limits) (County Borough of Cork and County of Cork) Regulations, 1977
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1 amending act · 1981-06-08, S.I. No. 211/1981 - Road Traffic (Speed Limits) (County Borough of Cork and County of Cor…
( b ) The Buttevant Road between a point 201 metres north-west of its junction with the Doneraile Road and a point 75 metres north-west of the boundary of the urban district of Mallow.
( c ) The Navigation or Killarney Road between a point 640 metres east of the boundary of the urban district of Mallow and a point 23 metres west of its junction with the Kennel Hill Road.
The following roads in and adjacent to the Urban District of Midleton:—
( a ) Park Road North, The Knockgriffin Housing Estate Roads.
( b ) The Cork Road between a point 41 metres west of the boundary of the urban district of Midleton and a point 1,052 metres west of the said boundary.
( c ) The Fermoy Road between a point 183 metres north-west of the boundary of the urban district of Midleton and a point 124 metres north-west of its junction with Park Street.
( d ) The Youghal Road between the boundary of the urban district of Midleton and a point 476 metres north-east of the said boundary.
( e ) The Whitegate Road between the boundary of the urban district of Midleton and a point 563 metres south of the said boundary.
The following road at Millstreet:—
The Mallow Road between a point 124 metres west of its junction with the Tullig Road and a point 417 metres north-east of the said junction.
The following roads at Mitchelstown:—
( a ) The Dublin Road between a point 32 metres north of its junction with the Ballinwillin Road and a point 371 metres north of the said junction.
( b ) The Limerick Road for a distance of 92 metres from its junction with the Dublin Road.
( c ) The Cork Road between a point 46 metres south-west of its junction with the Old Cork or Glanworth Road and a point 440 metres south-west of the said junction.
( d ) The Mallow Road between a point 78 metres west of its junction with Barrack Road and a point 430 metres west of the said junction.
( e ) Barrack Road between its junction with the Glanworth Road and a point 23 metres south of its junction with O'Neill Crowley Terrace.
( f ) The Old Cork or Glanworth Road between a point 30 metres from its junction with the Cork Road and a point 155 metres south of its junction with Barrack Road.
( g ) The Glanworth Road for a distance of 345 metres south-west of its junction with Barrack Road.
The following road Newtown-Roscarberry:—
The Clonakilty-Skibbereen road between a point 92 metres north-west of its junction with Closheen Lane and a point 138 metres south-east of its junction with Tanyard Lane.
The following roads in the town of Passage West:—
( a ) The Raffeen Road between a point 137 metres south-west of its junction with the Glen Road and a point 732 metres east of the town boundary.
( b ) The Monkstown-Cork road between a point 440 metres north of its junction with Chapel Hill and a point 137 metres south of its junction with Hawkes' Hill.
The following roads at Rathcormack:—
( a ) Cemetery Road.
( b ) The Cork-Dublin road between a point 250 metres south of its junction with Glenville Road and a point 75 metres north of its junction with the Terramount Road.
( c ) The Barnahash Road for a distance of 180 metres from its junction with the Cork-Dublin road and the road leading eastward from the Barnahash Road at a point 138 metres north-west of the said boundary.
( d ) Quarter Lane for a distance of 46 metres from its junction with the Cork-Dublin road.
( e ) The Terramount Road for a distance of 37 metres from its junction with the Cork-Dublin road.
( f ) Glenville Road for a distance of 20 metres from its junction with the Cork-Dublin road.
( g ) The Castlelyons Road for a distance of 95 metres from its junction with the Cork-Dublin road at Ring's Cross.
The following roads at Rathluirc:—
( a ) The Newtownshandrum Road between a point 229 metres west of its junction with Main Street and a point 1,052 metres west of the said junction.
( b ) The Limerick Road between a point 92 metres north of its junction with Main Street and a point 440 metres north of its junction with the road connecting the said road with Chapel Street.
( c ) The road connecting the Limerick Road with Chapel Street between its junction with the Limerick Road and a point 28 metres north of its junction with Chapel Street.
The following roads at Riverstick:—
( a ) Old Cork Road.
( b ) The Cork-Kinsale road between a point 185 metres north of its junction with the Ballymartle Road and a point 395 metres south of the said junction.
( c ) The Ballymartle Road for a distance of 255 metres from its junction with the Cork-Kinsale road.
( d ) The Coolkirky Road for a distance of 20 metres from its junction with the Ballymartle Road.
( e ) The Heathburn Road for a distance of 145 metres from its junction with the Cork-Kinsale road.
( f ) The road connecting the Old Cork Road with the Ballymartle Road.
The following road in the Urban District of Skibbereen:—
The Cork Road between the urban district boundary and a point 46 metres east of Callaghan's Cross.
The following road at Watergrasshill:—
The Cork Road between a point 46 metres south-west of its junction with the Mountain Road and a point 320 metres south-west of the said junction.
The following roads in and adjacent to the Urban District of Youghal:—-
( a ) Kilcoran Place.
( b ) The Waterford Road between a point 229 metres south-east of its junction with the Quarry Road and a point 320 metres north of the said junction.
( c ) The Killeagh Road between a point 32 metres west of its junction with the Kilcoran Road and a point 366 metres west of its junction with the road connecting the Killeagh Road with the Claycastle Strand Road.
( d ) The New Line Road for a distance of 183 metres from its junction with the Killeagh Road.
( e ) The Bawnmore Road between its junction with the New Line Road and a point 18 metres south-west of its junction with Kilcoran Road.
( f ) The road connecting the Bawnmore Road with the Killeagh Road.
FOURTH SCHEDULE
Roads in respect of which a special speed limit of 50 miles per hour is prescribed.
The following roads at Ballyhea:—
( a ) The Rathluirc-Buttevant road between a point 183 metres north of its junction with the Kilfinane Road and a point 183 metres south of the said junction.
( b ) The Kilfinane Road for a distance of 20 metres from its junction with the Rathluirc-Buttevant road.
( c ) The Ardnageehy Road for a distance of 20 metres from its junction with the Rathluirc-Buttevant road.
GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for the Environment,
this 8th day of December, 1977.
SYLVESTER BARRETT,
Minister for the Environment.
EXPLANATORY NOTE.
These Regulations replace the Road Traffic (Speed Limits) (County Borough of Cork and County of Cork) Regulations, 1974 ( S.I. No. 310 of 1974 ) 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 a speed limit 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.
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