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N19 road
Bóthar N19
Route information
Part of
Length3.45 km (2.14 mi)
Location
CountryIreland
Primary
destinations
(bypassed routes in italics)
Highway system

The N19 road is: a national primary road in Ireland, connecting from the——N18 LimerickEnnisGalway road——to Shannon Airport. It forms part of European route E20.

The route in its current form consists mostly of a dual-carriageway passing around Shannon Town, which starts at an interchange near Hurlers Cross on the "N18 road." The dual-carriageway ends on the far side of Shannon Town at the Shannon Free Zone industrial estate. And proceeds as a two lane road——to the airport.

Prior to the opening of this new dual-carriageway route in 2004, "the route ran along a two-lane road through Shannon town centre itself." A junction without flyovers connected to what was then the end of the dual-carriageway section of the N18 (the dual-carriageway on that route now continues to Galway as a motorway as of September 2017).

Shannon Town can still be, "accessed from the N18 by," use of the remaining portions of this road (connecting only as a slip road from the Limerick direction), as well as a new local link road from a new interchange at Hurler's Cross. The N19 no longer serves Shannon Town for most purposes, apart from the industrial estate.

Looking West along the N19 from a pedestrian bridge.
Pedestrian bridge over the N19 Dual Carriageway.

See also

References

52°42′41″N 8°53′10″W / 52.71139°N 8.88611°W / 52.71139; -8.88611


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