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Swords to Ennis on a Friday evening

  • 10-04-2010 5:08pm
    #1
    spuddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 807 ✭✭✭


    Hi, what's the best route take from Swords to Ennis on a Friday evening, leaving around 6pm.

    Couple of options: M4, M6, N65, N66, N18, M18 looks like the most direct route. But maybe I'd be faster heading all the way to Oranmore on the M6, then N18, M18 to Ennis.


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  • #2
    GTE
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    I went from Maynooth to ennis last week. The satnav doesnt have the updated motorways so took us the "old" way through loughrey(sp). Anyway, we ignored the satnav and went the oranmore way. M4 to M6, through Gort into Ennis.

    It turned out when we got back onto a road that the satnav knew, the Gort road, we would arrive in ennis at the exact same time and if it wasnt for an ice cream stop we would have arrived at ennis at the same time the satnav reported at maynooth with the old route.

    So Oranmore is the same travel time*, better road, less stops and hold ups in towns.

    *I say same travel time, but you are bound to get stuck a few times if you go the old way.


  • #3
    Chris_5339762
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    Once the M7 is done it may well be quicker to go M7 - Limerick Tunnel - M18. But for now, it would be quicker to go M6 to Oranmore - N18 - M18.


  • #4
    spuddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 807 ✭✭✭spuddy


    Sorry I didn't get back to this, trip got postponed, but thanks for the replies. Looks like its back on now so...

    Even with the time saved to Oranmore on the M6, you've still got to travel the N18, which is fairly poor if I recall. Is the N66 through Loughrea much worse?
    Seems like a lot of extra kms to do, especially when it'll be off peak by the time I get there.


  • #5
    chubba1984
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 237 ✭✭chubba1984


    I'm from just outside Ennis myself and commute from/to Dublin city centre every weekend. The fastest way home is M4/M6 to Oranmore and then down the N18 thru Gort. The N66 from Loughrea to Gort is a bad road in my opinion, windy and potholed, particularly when you're used to the motorway from Dublin to Loughrea. The N18 from Oranmore to Gort is a better road than the N66.


  • #6
    spuddy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 807 ✭✭✭spuddy


    thanks for that, I'll stick with route via Oranmore


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  • #7
    SeanW
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    yeah, in the old days, pre N6, it would have made sense to take the N66 from Loughrea, even though its not a great road from what I remember, simply because the N6 was going in that direction up to that point anyway. Now, getting off the M6 (just after paying the toll) and connecting via the N65 just doesn't sound like such a good idea.


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