M8 motorway (Ireland)

This motorway forms part of the N8 road.
This article is about the motorway in Ireland. For other motorways bearing the route M8, see M8 (disambiguation) § Roads.

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M8 motorway
Mótarbhealach M8
N15 roadN16 roadSligoN17 roadN26 roadN5 roadN4 roadN5 roadLongfordWestportN17 roadGalwayM6 motorwayN18 roadM18 motorwayLimerickM7 motorwayM20 motorwayN24 roadN21 roadTraleeN20 roadM8 motorwayN22 roadCorkLondonderry/DerryLondonderry/DerryN13 roadN14 roadN13 roadN15 roadArmaghBelfastBelfastN2 roadN3 roadN4 roadM1 motorwayM3 motorwayM4 motorwayDublinN7 roadM7 motorwayN11 roadM9 motorwayKilkennyM11 motorwayN10 roadN11 roadN24 roadM9 motorwayN30 roadN25 roadN25 roadWaterfordN25 road
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Route information
Part of
Length147 km (91 mi)
Existed1992–present
HistoryConstructed 1985–2010
Component
highways
Major junctions
FromM7 junction 19
Major intersections





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ToDunkettle interchange Cork
Location
CountryIreland
Primary
destinations		Dublin, Cork, Fermoy, Thurles, Cashel
Highway system

The M8 motorway (Irish: Mótarbhealach M8) is an inter-urban motorway in Ireland, which forms part of the motorway from the capital Dublin to Cork city. The 149 km motorway commences in the townland of Aghaboe, County Laois and runs through the counties of Kilkenny, Tipperary and Limerick, terminating at the Dunkettle interchange in Cork City. First called for in the Road Needs Study (1998), it was later incorporated into the National Development Plan (2000–2006) and later still formed part of the Irish Government's Transport 21 plan for infrastructural development.[1] The majority of the M8 (115 km) was built between 2006 and 2010. On 28 May 2010, the motorway was completed and had replaced almost all of the single-carriageway N8 except for a short section of urban road in Cork City.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Transport 21 – M/N8 Dublin to Cork". Archived from the original on 28 May 2009. Retrieved 25 May 2009.
  2. ^ "Final section of Dublin to Cork motorway opens". rte.ie. 28 May 2010. Archived from the original on 31 May 2010. Retrieved 28 May 2010.
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 June 2011. Retrieved 18 September 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)