M18 motorway (Ireland)

M18 motorway in Ireland
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Basic data
Operator:	Transport Infrastructure Ireland
Start of the street:	M7 motorway (Ireland) Junction 30, as N18
End of street:	Athenry
Overall length:	70.8 km currently
Counties :	limerick Clare Galway
M18 at Junction 13 (photo 2009)
Course of the road (9)  Shannon (10)  Newmarket on Fergus (11)  Dromoland (12)  Ennis (13)  Tulla (14)  Ennis (North) (15)  Crusheen (16)  Loughrea / Gort (17)  Kiltiernan (18)

M18 at Junction 13 to the south (photo 2009)

The M18 motorway ( English for "Autobahn M18", Irish Mótarbhealach M18 ) is a high-level road link in the Republic of Ireland that is currently (2019) expanded to a length of around 70 km and not yet completely completed , which together with the completed parts of the M17 motorway and the M20 motorway forms part of the Atlantic Corridor which, when completed, will connect Letterkenny to Waterford via Sligo , Galway , Limerick and Cork . The section between the southern bypass of Limerick (Junction 30 of the M7 motorway / Junction 1 of the M20 motorway ), which is being developed as an expressway junction, to Junction 9, is a national road 9, a partially four- lane country road ( dual carriageway ). As part of European route 20, this section is also the approach to Shannon Airport from the east. The cities of Ennis and Gort will be bypassed ( Ennis bypass and Gort bypass ). The connection with the M6 motorway and the M17 motorway , which continues to the north, is made by means of a roundabout over the M6, which is not signposted as a motorway.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ordnance Survey Ireland / Ordnance Survey Northern Ireland (Ed.): Official Road Atlas Ireland / Atlas oifigiúil Bóitre Éireann, 7th Edition 2018, ISBN 978-1-908852-83-0
2. ↑ https://www.rte.ie/news/munster/2017/1013/912137-m20-limerick-cork/