Uneven surface at Ohill cross needs “urgent attention”

Cllr Paddy Farrell requested that, following the completion of the recent road resurfacing works at Ohill cross, near Mohill, Leitrim County Council and district engineer, Darragh O'Boyle, to tar or blacktop additional sections of road each side of Ohill cross “as the new surface highlights the poor condition and unevenness of these sections of road, which is now in need of urgent attention.”
The response to Cllr Farrell at last Monday's meeting of Carrick-on-Shannon Municipal District meeting noted that the three year roads programme has the next section towards Keshcarrigan scheduled for 2024.
Cllr Farrell thanked Mr O'Boyle and his team for “the big improvement out there” and asked that for the next programme they “do a bit of either side of where the works have been carried out because it is in a very poor state and very dangerous.”
Cllr Thomas Mulligan had a similar motion tabled at the meeting which asked that “further attention be given to recent road strengthening works at Ohill crossroads on the Keshcarrigan / Mohill road.”
Waves in the road
Cllr Mulligan said there were “waves in the road” after the contractor surfaced the road with blacktop and “I think we should ask him back to do something with that section.”
However he did say the bog road is “coming along and there is a substantial improvement.”
The response from the council said that recycled road strengthening works are now complete and “we are satisfied with the end product. I am unaware of any further attention that is required.”
Mr O'Boyle noted that this section of road was done as “a recycling job and we are trying to introduce low carbon measures to maintain our infrastructure rather than putting down 50ml of blacktop which is a huge carbon footprint.”
He continued that the road will “settle” and said he hoped the same works would be carried out on the section of road towards Keshcarrigan next year.