S.I. No. 172/1967:

ROAD TRAFFIC (SPEED LIMITS) (COUNTY OF SLIGO) REGULATIONS, 1967.

ROAD TRAFFIC (SPEED LIMITS) (COUNTY OF SLIGO) REGULATIONS, 1967.

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 Sligo) Regulations, 1967.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of August, 1967.

3. In these Regulations save where the context otherwise requires--

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

"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;

"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. 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 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 Sligo 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 Act.

1. The following roads in the Borough of Sligo --

(a) The Hazelwood Road, The Manorhamilton Road, The Short Walk, The Mental Hospital Road, The Mountshannon Road, The Screens Road, The Rusheen Road, Caltragh Lane, The Cairns Road.

(b) The Barroe Road between the Borough boundary and a point 25 yards north-east of its junction with Ash Lane.

(c) The Ballytivnan or Bundoran Road between the Borough boundary and a point 50 yards north of its junction with Ash Lane.

(d) Cartron Hill and its continuation as the Rosses Point Road between the Borough boundary and a point 100 yards north of the junction of Cartron Hill with Duck Street.

(e) Finisklin Road between the Borough boundary and a point 70 yards south-west of its northernmost junction with the Quay Road.

(f) The Oakfield Road for a distance of 730 yards from the Borough boundary.

(g) The Newtownholmes Road between the Borough boundary and a point 100 yards south of its junction with Circular Road.

(h) Pearse Road or Albert Road between the Borough boundary and a point 30 yards south of its junction with St. Brigid's Place or Vernon Street.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

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

1. The following roads at Ballymote --

(a) The Fair Green Road, Lord Edward Street, O'Connel Street, Back Road, Marren Park, The Lane.

(b) The Tobercurry Road for a distance of 165 yards from its junction with the Sligo Road.

(c) The Sligo Road for a distance of 155 yards from its junction with the Tobercurry Road.

(d) Teeling Street and its continuation as the Riverstown Road between the junction of Teeling Street with the Tobercurry Road and a point 430 yards north-east of its junction with Lord Edward Street.

(e) Emmet Street and its continuation as Grafton Street and the Castlebaldwin Road for a distance of 360 yards from the junction of Emmet Street with Lord Edward Street.

(f) The Boyle Road for a distance of 245 yards from its junction with Wolfe Tone Street.

(g) Wolfe Tone Street for a distance of 110 yards from its junction with the Boyle Road.

(h) The Gorteen Road for a distance of 210 yards from its junction with Wolfe Tone Street.

2. The following roads at Ballysodare (Ballisodare) --

(a) The Sligo-Dublin road between a point 310yards north-west of its junction with Station Road and a point 100 yards south-east of its junction with the Ballina Road.

(b) The Ballina Road for a distance of 780 yards from its junction with the Sligo-Dublin road.

(c) The Station Road for a distance of 70 yards from its junction with the Sligo-Dublin road.

3. The following roads at Bellahy --

(a) The Charlestown-Collooney road for a distance of 520 yards from the boundary between the counties of Sligo and Mayo.

(b) The road joining the eastern side of the Charlestown-Collooney road at a point approximately 330 yards north of the boundary between the counties of Sligo and Mayo.

4. The following roads at Collooney --

(a) Old Street, Chapel Street.

(b) The Sligo-Dublin road between a point 150 yards south-east of its junction with the Coolaney Road and a point 175 yards south-east of its junction with Chapel Street.

(c) The Northern Station Road for a distance of 60 yards from its junction with the Sligo-Dublin road.

(d) Barrack Street for a distance of 80 yards from its junction with St. Mary's Green Road.

(e) St. Mary's Green Road for a distance of 200 yards from its junction with the Tobercurry Road.

(f) The Tobercurry Road for a distance of 60 yards from its junction with St. Mary's Green Road.

5. The following roads at Gorteen --

(a) The Tobercurry-Boyle road between a point 150 yards north-west of its junction with the Ballymote-Ballaghaderreen road and a point 150 yards south-east of its junction with the Drumrolla Road.

(b) The Ballymote-Ballaghaderreen road between a point 150 yards north-east of its junction with the Tobercurry-Boyle road and a point 200 yards south-west of the said junction.

(c) The Dromrolla Road for a distance of 50 yards from its junction with the Tobercurry Boyle road.

6. The following roads at Grange --

(a) The Sligo-Bundoran road between a point 240 yards south-west of its junction with the Streedagh Road and a point 120 yards north-east of its junction with the Newtown Road.

(b) The Rinroe Road for a distance of 50 yards from its junction with the Sligo-Bundoran road.

(c) The Newtown Road for a distance of 100 yards from its junction with the Sligo-Bundoran road.

7. The following roads at Inishcrone (Enniscrone) --

(a) The Cliff Road, The Pier Road, The Burma Road.

(b) The Easky-Ballina road between a point 50 yards south-west of its junction with the Corbally Road and a point 520 yards south-west of its junction with the Cliff Road.

(c) The road leading north from Main Street to the car park at the Hollow

8. The following roads at Rosses Point --

(a) The Chapel Road, Greenland, Greenland Cottages Road, The Line, The Rosses Lane.

(b) The Sligo Road between its terminations at Bomore Point and Deadman's Point and a point 570 yards east of its junction with The Line.

9. The following road adjacent to the Borough of Sligo --

The Strandhill Road between the boundary of the Borough of Sligo and a point 50 yards west of its junction with Gibraltar Road.

10. The following roads at Strandhill:--

(a) Buenos Aires Drive, The Burma Road.

(b) The Sligo-Culleenamore road between a point 300 yards north-east of its junction with the Burma Road and a point 500 yards south-west of its junction with Buenos Aires Drive.

11. The following roads at Tobercurry --

(a) The Circular Road, The Facory Road, The Carrowntober Road, The Square

(b) The Collooney-Charlestown road between a point 500 yards south-west of its junction with the Cloonacool Road and a point 100 yards south-west of its junction with the Ballina Road.

(c) The Ballina Road for a distance of 520 yards from its junction with the Collooney-Charlestown road.

(d) The Ballyara Road for a distance of 250 yards from its junction with the Collooney-Charlestown road.

(e) The roads serving the Carrowntober Housing Scheme.

(f) Emmet Street and its continuation as the Gorteen Road for a distance of 250 yards from the junction of Emmet Street with the Square.

(g) The Mountain Road for a distance of 200 yards from its junction with the Collooney-Charlestown road.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

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

1. The following roads at Cliffoney --

(a) The Sligo-Bundoran road between a point 160 yards south-west of its junction with the Mullaghmore Road and a point 320 yards north-east of the said junction.

(b) The Mullaghmore Road for a distance of 50 yards from its junction with the Sligo-Bundoran road.

(c) The Chapel Road for a distance of 50 yards from its junction with the Sligo-Bundoran road.

2. The following roads at Curry --

(a) The Charlestown-Collooney road between a point 30 yards north-east of its junction with the road leading through Botinny to Cloonmore Crossroads and a point 150 yards south-west of its junction with the Banada Road.

(b) The Curraghbonaun or Mill Road for a distance of 60 yards from its junction with the Charlestown-Collooney road.

3. The following roads in and adjacent to the Borough of Sligo --

(a) Pearse Road or Albert Road between a point 30 yards south of its junction with St. Brigid's Place or Vernon Street and a point 520 yards north-east of the boundary of the Borough of Sligo.

(b) Cairns Road for a distance of 240 yards from its junction with Pearse Road or Albert Road.

(c) Carton Hill and its continuation as the Rosses Point Road between a point 100 yards north of the junction of Cartron Hill with Duck Street and a point 995 yards south-east of the boundary of the Borough of Sligo.

4. The following road at Tobercurry --

The Charlestown Road between a point 100 yards south-west of its junction with the Ballina Road and a point 100 yards north-east of its junction with Lover's Lane or the Golf Course Road.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government

this 10th day of July, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty Seven.

CAOIMHGHÍN Ó BEÓLÁIN,

Aire Rialtais Áitiúil.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These Regulations replace the Road Traffic (Speed Limits) Regulations, 1963 and 1965, in their application to the County of Sligo and the Borough of Sligo and alter the speed limits applicable to certain roads in these areas.

The Regulations exclude the 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 roads mentioned in the Third Schedule for all mechanically propelled vehicles.

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