Route for Tralee - Dublin

Murph100

Tralee BC are cycling from Tralee to Dublin ( City West ) next Sat, and just wanted to know if all the old N7 is still open or are there any diversions we may have to take.

Obviously we're grand up to just past Limerick but its the rest we're concerned about.

I drive up & down about twice a week, now on the motorway of course, but during the switchover to the motorways, I noticed loads of sections of the old N7 being sealed off, so we just want to make sure we dont hit a closed road on our cycle, its frigging long enough (325km ) without having to double back out of a closed section.

ROK ON

Murph.
Are you part of the gang doing this. If so fair plY.

Most of the N7 is open. However you must now go into Nenagh if you want to avoid the Motorway. If you recall the N7 actually avoided Nenagh. Ye will have a big wide largely empty road from Castleconnel (outside Limk) to Nenagh, then from Nenagh to Dublin via Portlaoise.

When ye get to Naas, take the road to Johnstown and Kill. There ye will have a backroad that runs adjacent to the M7 into Saggart. This will bring ye almost into Tallaght without being on the m7/n7 into Dublin.

Best of luck.

Murph100

Cheers for that ROK !


Yeah, there will be about 12 of us, leaving Tralee at 7am. We're hoping for a good SW tailwind and for Paul Griffin to be in flying form so the rest of us can freewheel the whole way

We were going to go to the GPO or Stephens Green, but we'd be caught for daylight, plus given the tired minds & legs at that stage, the likelyhood of someone coming a cropper in traffic or Luas tracks was very high.