Tipperary council applies for funding to improve road safety around Ballingarry bridge

Tipperary County Council has applied for funding to improve road safety at Ballingarry’s  Mairead’s Cross Bridge  that was recently damaged due to a traffic accident. 

Carrick-on-Suir Municipal District Engineer Willie Corby told the district’s December monthly meeting that he had applied for funding under the Low Cost Safety Scheme to put in measures to make the road around the bridge located near Ballingarry’s old creamery safer. 

He was responding to Ballingarry Cllr Imelda Goldsboro, who told the meeting she was very concerned about the bridge as it suffered severe damage due to an accident. 

She said the damage to the bridge needed to be dealt with urgently. 

Mr Corby said he was aware of that accident and the council’s staff were trying to put up scaffolding at the bridge as soon as possible. 

He assured Cllr Goldsboro that if the council secured the Low Cost Safety Scheme funding, it would look at why vehicles were coming off the road at the location and put in additional features such as anti-skid surfacing to prevent that.  Cllr Goldsboro told The Nationalist the council’s funding application also seeks funding  to improve road safety at three other locations on that stretch of the R691 Cashel to Kilkenny Road.