Travelling to Tipp

lulu1

Ì am travelling to Clonmel and Kilkenny shortly. I will be going through Sligo and Athlone. What I want to know is is there any major motorways between Athlone and Clonmel, or Clonmel and Kilkenny. The driver has just passed her test and although she is a good driver she is just that bit wary of places she has never been. I know I can look it up on route planner but cant make head or tail of it

Sheldons Brain

Well you could just look at the map.
http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,531996,756750,1,10
https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.3767835,-9.097154,7z

or they sell paper ones in bookshops and petrol stations.

Ireland is an island, you can't go that far wrong.

lulu1

Sheldons Brain wrote: »

Well you could just look at the map.
http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,531996,756750,1,10
https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.3767835,-9.097154,7z

or they sell paper ones in bookshops and petrol stations.

Ireland is an island, you can't go that far wrong.

I suppose you are right will have the sat nav anyway

Grab All Association

If going to Clonmel first. N62 Athlone-Ferbane-Cloghan-Birr-Roscrea-Templemore-Thurles-Horse and Jockey N62 ends here- R639 Cashel-Rosegreen-Clerihan-Clonmel

ProudDUB

Google Maps is yer only man. Input your start point and your end point and it does all the work for you. Shows you the kind of roads you'll be on too, such as whether they are motorways, N roads etc etc

Don't get too reliant on the sat nav for trips like this. It is still good for your or the driver to have an idea of what route you are taking and what the next major town on the route is. Then follow the road signs. (Road signage in Ireland has a terrible reputation, but I don't think that it is as bad as is claimed.)

The sat nav will generally plot the most direct way from Point A to Point B. Even if that means taking you down teeny, tiny L road boreens, with an overall trip time of 12 hours, that is still what it will tell you to do. To get to your destination quicker, you'll want to stick to the major roads. The sat nav won't always do that, unless you can preset it to only take you on certain kinds of roads....N roads, R roads, motorways etc

Victor

lulu1 wrote: »

The driver has just passed her test and although she is a good driver she is just that bit wary of places she has never been.

Should she be taking such along journey then?

lulu1

Victor wrote: »

Should she be taking such along journey then?

She has been driving for a long time and I am sure we will take a few breaks along the way might even stop over night somewhere.

Victor

Assuming you don't need to actually go to Athlone, why not head straight for Dublin and cut across to the M9 and head to Kilkenny, then Clonmel?

hawkwind23

Headline made me reminisce about the annual trip to tipp.
Pretty much stand on the roadside around Newlands Cross and hope for the best.
Great festival in the day

n97 mini

OP, use Google Maps, it's excellent at this sort of thing.

Victor wrote: »

Assuming you don't need to actually go to Athlone, why not head straight for Dublin and cut across to the M9 and head to Kilkenny, then Clonmel?

This is actually funny (and no reflection on you Victor), but it illustrates a point. The M50 is congested to fook and they're talking about ways to keep commuters off it, but yet Dublin (which implies M50) comes into the conversation for someone travelling Sligo to Kilkenny. It's like when the Abbeyleix bypass opened politicians were saying "Non stop motorway from Cork to Belfast"

Victor

n97 mini wrote: »

This is actually funny (and no reflection on you Victor), but it illustrates a point. The M50 is congested to fook and they're talking about ways to keep commuters off it, but yet Dublin (which implies M50) comes into the conversation for someone travelling Sligo to Kilkenny.

I deliberately avoided mentioning the M50 - one could cut across somewhere between Mullingar and the Outer Ring Road.

lulu1

Victor wrote: »

Assuming you don't need to actually go to Athlone, why not head straight for Dublin and cut across to the M9 and head to Kilkenny, then Clonmel?

Just think we will stick to our planned route and hope for the best.Not too sure but I dont think there is much in it distance wise anyway.

lulu1

hawkwind23 wrote: »

Headline made me reminisce about the annual trip to tipp.
Pretty much stand on the roadside around Newlands Cross and hope for the best.
Great festival in the day

And back in the day there were no motorways to try and avoid

n97 mini

Victor wrote: »

I deliberately avoided mentioning the M50 - one could cut across somewhere between Mullingar and the Outer Ring Road.

Yes, I know you didn't.

Tho there aren't a lot of quality options between Mullingar and the M50 either, and I'm including the ORR in that.