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Advice on best route Galway to Belfast?

  • 14-08-2012 11:10am
    #1
    richfly
    Registered Users Posts: 185 ✭✭


    Hi guys going to Belfast next Monday and looking for advice on the best route to go.

    I know the motorway is easier but you hit so many tolls and it is boring so was think I might go Athlone - Cavan - Monaghan take that route.

    What you guys think?


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  • #2
    Doom
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭Doom


    Cost of fuel would be cheaper on a motorway and safer, lots of farmers using back roads, cutting silage


  • #3
    Losty Dublin
    Registered Users Posts: 12,956 ✭✭✭✭Losty Dublin


    My sister done the cross country route before via Athlone and Cavan and it's hard going at times. If you took a cross country the N 55 from Kilbeggan to Dundalk is a short cut but a poor road for the most part. The M 4, M 50 and M 1 will be quicker but you have 4 toll plaza's en route.

    You could also try the N 17 to Sligo and head onwards via the N 16/A 4 across the border into Enniskillen; it's patchy in places and you have Claregalway and Tuam to pass through but the N 17 is generally quite good beyond Ballindine. The road over the border is a straight run and grand once you pass Enniskillen and it becomes the M 1 (NI) around Dungannon.

    @Doom, fuel bills are generally higher on motorways per mile as engine rev's are higher due to the better road layouts.


  • #4
    richfly
    Registered Users Posts: 185 ✭✭richfly


    I drove to Monaghan couple years ago and from what I remember it wasn't to bad but what is the road like after Monaghan?

    Sligo way is a no go don't like that drive and trying to avoid the tolls.

    So I suppose it leave's me with 2 options turn of at Athlone or Mullingar.


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