M21 - Limerick to Rathkeale/Foynes [Adare bypass under construction; remainder pending]

Railway bridges passing over the road?

I'd expect Sisk to win the tender for the road.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/bam-bids-to-build-150m-bypass-for-ryder-cup-at-billionaire-jp-mcmanuss-adare-manor/a1291426690.html

Behind a paywall. They are entitled to tender for the project. Im sure there will be a tighter set of documents for this project than the childrens hospital.

Interesting to see that house near the Maigue. Looks like windows have been removed. I would have thought it could be used for site offices?

Cant believe they levelled a ringfort for the road… they will have no luck for that… how were they even allowed..?? i know a farmer who was up in court for interfering with a ringfort.. lost his farm payments over it and had to sell his cattle to pay the legal costs..

The ring fort also doesnt seem to show up on any maps I have looked at so may not have been discovered until the route was finalised. Would it have been discovered using sonar tech before excavations or during the trial excavations that traverse the route? It is located at the croagh interchange that councillors pushed for.

I thought ringforts were protected.. as in permission or no permission didn't matter.. you couldn't go near them ..

Not ropey at all. Every major construction project now includes an archaeological survey phase for this exact reason. Archaeologists get the opportunity to investigate the area, but unless something of huge historical significance is discovered, the project will then proceed once they've finished.

This is now standard practice in European construction projects, but spare a thought for the team managing the expansion of Line C of the Rome Metro: the route runs right under the heart of Imperial Rome, and so it was only a matter of time before they hit something significant. But construction of the line continued after extensive archaeological investigations, and the station, Porta Metronia, should open later this month - the praetorian guard barracks that was uncovered in construction has been incorporated into a museum exhibit in the station. (Linea C has been plagued with delays and cost overrun, and it's pretty much all down to this kind of thing: the tunnels are deeper than the ground level at any period where humans lived in Rome, but the stations need to get all the way to the surface, and that means digging down through a few thousand years of civilisation)