N69/N22/N70 Tralee Bypass

carchaeologist · 21-02-2012 11:36pm

Heres some shots of the Forge cross i took today. Trees are being cleared and im sure the old Forge has not long to live now...Its been a landmark for many years!

Afaik there will be a roundabout constructed here.
Looking down from the hill up towards the college.

The old Forge..

Crossroads looking from Tralee out the N69.

Tree clearance looking towards Tralee and up towards the college.

The old Forge looking up from behind.

stevielenihan · 11-03-2012 11:10am

great pictures

carchaeologist · 12-03-2012 12:08am

Pictures from this week..

Looking north again from the new culvert in Ballybeggan.

And there seems to be alot of progress on the bridge construction on Knockwaddra.

dmeehan · 12-03-2012 10:10am

its cool how the original road works signs are still up in place even though they are now after where the road is closed :-) looks funny

carchaeologist · 12-03-2012 11:11am

Yes, it is kinda funny. It appears they are starting to build the pillars for the bridge on the edges of the huge crater in the middle, hopefully the unusual spell of good weather is helping things along.

I see this thread is just about hitting the 20.000 views mark now. That's alot of views!!
Glad it's proving interesting to many of ye!

stevielenihan · 12-03-2012 6:01pm

are they starting to put down gravel on the bypass at balleybagen?

stevielenihan · 12-03-2012 10:48pm

stevielenihan wrote: »

are they starting to put down gravel on the bypass at balleybagen?

Well Carchaeologist we would be lost without you for taking the pictures. You take great pictures.

carchaeologist · 13-03-2012 12:42am

stevielenihan wrote: »

are they starting to put down gravel on the bypass at balleybagen?

A bit, but i reckon its only for access roads for machinery. This seems to be the case all along the route. If it rains it would be a swamp!:D

Well Carchaeologist we would be lost without you for taking the pictures. You take great pictures.

Thank you, i wasnt sure if anyone was viewing this thread but it appears theres 140 views on here today alone.
I try to take the pics at the same angle and place very time for comparison afterwards.

ongarboy · 13-03-2012 11:28am

carchaeologist wrote: »

A bit, but i reckon its only for access roads for machinery. This seems to be the case all along the route. If it rains it would be a swamp!:D

Thank you, i wasnt sure if anyone was viewing this thread but it appears theres 140 views on here today alone.
I try to take the pics at the same angle and place very time for comparison afterwards.

Well, you got a plug in Infrastructure/Roads yesterday when someone posted that they couldn't understand how an active road scheme like the Tralee bypass hadn't had any posts in that forum in months. Someone else responded to say all the updates are in the Kerry forum so maybe that explains the visits!

Keep up the good work - would it be realistic to say we could have the road open this time next year? - considering so many of the recent projects finished months in advance.

carchaeologist · 13-03-2012 11:55am

ongarboy wrote: »

Keep up the good work - would it be realistic to say we could have the road open this time next year? - considering so many of the recent projects finished months in advance.

Part of it hopefully. They are making good headway with it.

carchaeologist · 13-03-2012 1:20pm

Looking north from the Killarney road.

You can see the start of the footpath of the roundabout on the middle right.

stevielenihan · 17-03-2012 11:33am

the Tralee Bypass will open to traffic around the middle of next year.

carchaeologist · 18-03-2012 2:49am

New roundabout under construction on the Killarney rd looking out from Tralee.

carchaeologist · 18-03-2012 2:54am

And a shot across the road from the same spot.

carchaeologist · 19-03-2012 11:24pm

This is where the road will meet the existing road between Skehanagh cross and the Lidl junction.

And todays shot of the bridge constuction from the barriers. Not much different, except the toilet has moved to the other side of the bank!:D

carchaeologist · 23-03-2012 11:46pm

I think this is the new rail bridge, view looking south from Ballinorig.

carchaeologist · 24-03-2012 8:25pm

carchaeologist wrote: »

The old forge was sadly crossed out yesterday...wonder how many years it was standing? Works seem to be moving on here now for the roaundabout construction now, lots of marker poles in the fields adjacent.

carchaeologist · 27-03-2012 10:03pm

Lots of site clearance work going on in the forge cross area this week. Couple of diggers in and more marker poles put in place.

Heres this weeks bridge pic..

dmeehan · 30-03-2012 12:44pm

it would be great if someone could collate the weekly bridge pics into an annimated GIF or similar :-)

carchaeologist · 31-03-2012 3:48am

dmeehan wrote: »

it would be great if someone could collate the weekly bridge pics into an annimated GIF or similar :-)

That would hopefully be the plan when completed, I reckon it would look pretty cool as the shots are from approx the same place each week.

5live · 01-04-2012 3:43pm

dmeehan wrote: »

it would be great if someone could collate the weekly bridge pics into an annimated GIF or similar :-)

No, what we really need is weekly updates on the moving toilet:p

carchaeologist · 01-04-2012 10:11pm

This weeks obligatory bridge shot..

And the latest view looking north from ballybeggan..

carchaeologist · 01-04-2012 10:17pm

Forge cross roundabout is moving on nicely.

carchaeologist · 01-04-2012 10:24pm

Road widening up the hill from the Forge cross..

Looking up the hill

At the top and looking down..

And looking south at the new road that will meet the roundabout(i think) at ballybeggan.

carchaeologist · 01-04-2012 10:33pm

N69 where the roundabout will be looking towards Listowel..

I think the roundabout will be built in the field on the right of this shot.

And towards Tralee..

Trees have recently been cut down on the left here as the new road will be built through that field.

spacetweek · 02-04-2012 12:04pm

Can I ask what the Old Forge used be? Was it a blacksmith?

carchaeologist · 02-04-2012 3:08pm

spacetweek wrote: »

Can I ask what the Old Forge used be? Was it a blacksmith?

Originally i do believe it was. I'm trying to find out more details.

RevBlueJeans · 02-04-2012 6:40pm

It was an operating forge/blacksmiths up to the early 1960's. It is marked in the old ordinance survey maps in the mid 1800's as "Smithy". There was a public stand pipe (not a pump) painted green just next to it I remember in the getting our water there during the big freeze in the early 60's. I have a vague recollection as the forge being called the yankee forge but Im not certain.

I remember hearing that the area in general was used by members of the Republican Community for storage and distribution of "supplies".

carchaeologist · 02-04-2012 9:23pm

Thanks for that info! I'd love to see a photo of it in use.

Jim05 · 02-04-2012 9:46pm

Any idea of a completion date for the project

N69/N22/N70 Tralee Bypass

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