N66 road (Ireland)

The N66 road was a national secondary road in Ireland.

N66 road
Route information
Length	27.655 km (17.184 mi)
Location
Primary destinations	County Galway Gort, leaves the M18 (R353) Ballaba Thoor Ballylee Peterswell Kilchreest Lough Rea Terminates at the N65 at Loughrea
Road network
Roads in Ireland Motorways Primary Secondary Regional

It latterly linked the M18 at Gort, County Galway to the N65 outside Loughrea at the north of the Loughrea Bypass.

Prior to the construction of the Loughrea Bypass and M18 during the 2000s the N66 ran from the N18 road in Gort to the N6 in Loughrea itself and this was its configuration for most of its lifetime which was from c. 1970 to 2005.[1]

The N65, since 2010, continues north from Loughrea and forms an interchange with the M6. All routings lay entirely within County Galway.

En route it passed Thoor Ballylee, associated with William Butler Yeats.

The road was 27.655 km (17.184 mi) long.

It was downgraded as regional road R380 upon the completion of the M17/M18 scheme in September 2017.

See also

• Roads in Ireland
• Motorways in Ireland
• National primary road
• Regional road

References

1. "Residents' 'torture' ends as new bypass clears way through bottleneck to west". Irish Independent. 26 November 2005. Retrieved 18 October 2020.

• Roads Act 1993 (Classification of National Roads) Order 2006 – Department of Transport