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Best Route Dublin - Achill

  • 14-06-2010 2:21pm
    #1
    corm500
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    Off to Achill in a couple of weeks. I normally take the N4/N5 route but seeing as the N6 is all motorway now would it be quicker to go this direction cutting up from Galway to Westport. Any ideas?:confused:


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  • #2
    kippy
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    corm500 wrote: »
    Off to Achill in a couple of weeks. I normally take the N4/N5 route but seeing as the N6 is all motorway now would it be quicker to go this direction cutting up from Galway to Westport. Any ideas?:confused:

    Hi,
    I do the Galway-Achill journet regularily and have been going via headford-ballinrobe-westport most of the time although sometime go via Tuam-Castlebar depending on where I need to stop off.
    It'll take you no less than 1 hour and 50 minutes from Ballybrit to lower achill (Keel area)(and that is on a VERY good day with little or no traffic) Thats going via Westport but its much of a muchness. You're probably looking at 2 hours 20 with traffic and the usual summer traffic to hold you up.
    Ballybrit to Lucan is pretty much around 2 hours now assuming you stick at the speed limit for most of the way.
    You are looking at around about 4 hours at best but on better roads in general.
    I havent done Achill to Dublin direct any time in the last few years but last time I did it it was around 5 hours or more but that was before a lot of the mullingar/longford area gor the motorway.
    Kippy


    PS - Is it for the Achill half Marathon? Theres about 2000 people with entourage heading down the same weekend as well as usual traffic so it could be hectic on the roads.


  • #3
    corm500
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    Thanks Kippy

    I put the 2 routes in aa routefinder and according to that the N5 route is about 50 mins quicker so prob gonna end up on that route again. Is there a marathon on on the 26th?


  • #4
    kippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,984 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    corm500 wrote: »
    Thanks Kippy

    I put the 2 routes in aa routefinder and according to that the N5 route is about 50 mins quicker so prob gonna end up on that route again. Is there a marathon on on the 26th?
    Sound out so.
    Nope, the half marathon is the following weekend, on the 3rd of July.
    Enjoy the weekend up there!


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