Surveying for National Broadband Plan completed in Leitrim

National Broadband Ireland (NBI), the company rolling out the new high speed fibre broadband network under the Government’s National Broadband Plan (NBP) today announced that surveying works for just over 3,700 Leitrim premises in the Manorhamilton and Rooskey deployment areas are now completed.

In Leitrim, there are approximately 12,000 premises in the Intervention Area (IA), which includes homes, farms, commercial businesses, and schools. Under the National Broadband Plan, Leitrim will see an investment of €46M in the new high speed fibre network.

This will enable e-learning, remote monitoring of livestock or equipment, e-health initiatives, better energy efficiency in the home, and facilitate increased levels of remote working.

There are 2,532 premises in the Manorhamilton deployment area, which includes townlands and villages in the surrounds of Manorhamilton town, have recently completed surveying work. These initial works pave the way for the next stage of deploying fibre on poles/ducts and includes the erection of poles, unblocking of ducts, and the insertion of sub duct into existing ducts, for the fibre to be installed.

An additional 1,206 premises have also completed surveying works in the Rooskey deployment area. This area includes the village of Rooskey as well as nearby townlands such as Drumard and Beihy.

These vital survey works enable “Fibre -to-the-Home" network designs to be completed for each of the 12,000 premises in the Intervention Area, as identified by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications.

National Broadband Ireland contractors have been on the ground across the country and over 154,824 premises nationwide are available to order broadband with 42,805 homes and businesses connected to the NBI network so far.

Additionally, there are 895 homes, businesses, and farms in County Leitrim that can order or pre-order high-speed, reliable broadband. National Broadband Ireland is calling on people living in Leitrim to visit https://nbi.ie/eoi/ to sign up for updates on when they will be able to connect.

“Our teams continue to work on the rollout plan and steady progress has been made from surveying, design, build to connection works in County Leitrim. We are acutely aware that people want access to high-speed broadband and our goal is to deliver that as quickly as possible”, said NBI Chief Executive Peter Hendrick. 

“Momentum has been steadily building in the progression of the National Broadband Plan rollout, with homes across the country being connected to high-speed broadband. Survey and designs are an important part of mapping out how every home, farm and business will be connected, and they provide the blueprint for how the NBI fibre is laid.”

“The BCPs are also a key milestone in delivering access to high-speed internet in the Intervention Area, and we’re delighted to see these being connected for access - internally and externally - right across Leitrim.”