The R817 road is a suburban road in south
Dublin
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Harold's Cross
Harold's Cross () is an affluent urban village and inner suburb on the south side of Dublin, Ireland in the postal district D6W. The River Poddle runs through it, though largely in an underground culvert, and it holds a major cemetery, Mount ...
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Ballyboden
Ballyboden (''Baile Buadáin'' in Irish, meaning "Boden Town") is a locality within the suburb of Rathfarnham in South Dublin, at the foot of the Dublin Mountains between Whitechurch, Ballyroan and Knocklyon. It is a townland in the civil par ...
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Kimmage
Kimmage ( or ''Camaigh uisce'', meaning "crooked water-meadow", possibly referring to the meandering course of the River Poddle), is a suburb on the south side of the city of Dublin in Ireland.
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Kimmage is to the south of Dublin city c ...
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Templeogue
Templeogue () is a southwestern suburb of Dublin in Ireland. It lies between the River Poddle and River Dodder, and is about halfway from Dublin's centre to the mountains to the south.
Geography Location
The centre of Templeogue is from bo ...
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Ballyroan.
The official definition of the R817 from the ''Roads Act, 1993 (Classification of Regional Roads) Order, 2012''
[Statutory Instrument 54 of 2012 Roads Act 1993 (Declaration of National Roads) Order, 2012](_blank)
''Irish Statute Book
The Irish Statute Book, also known as the electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB), is a database produced by the Office of the Attorney General of Ireland. It contains copies of Acts of the Oireachtas and statutory instruments. '' (irishstatutebook.ie). (HTML file), 2012-02-28. states:
: R817: Harold's Cross - Ballyboden, County Dublin
:Between its junction with R137 at Harolds Cross Road in the city of Dublin and its junction with R115 at Ballyboden Road in the county of South Dublin via Harolds Cross Road, Kimmage Road Lower and Fortfield Road in the city of Dublin: Wainsfort Road, Cypress Grove Road, Old Bridge Road and Ballyroan Road in the county of South Dublin.
The road is long.
See also
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Roads in Ireland
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Regional road
References
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Regional roads in the Republic of Ireland
Roads in County Dublin
Templeogue