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A STUDY of every housing estate and road in Shannon will be carried out within the next week, with a view to putting signs in place during Sep- tember.
Clare County Council is undertak- ing the project in an effort to deter- mine the exact signage requirements and, as a result, will compile a list of individual signs. That list will be sent to the placename committee, to deter-
mine if the English to Irish translation is appropriate and also to check that the spelling of each estate is correct.
When this part of the project is com- pleted, an order will be placed for the new signs.
A list of 56 roads and estates has been compiled and this will be final- ised by the end of the month.
Where there are a number of estates served by a single collector road, each estate will be signed where the col- lector road meets a distributor road,
in addition to being signed at the en- trance of the estate.
Housing estates such as Cronan will also require additional signage, such as the replacement of signs fixed to the gable ends of houses.
Clare County Council Executive Engineer Michael Healy said he be- lieves that in excess of 100 signs will be required for the estates throughout Shannon, which are in charge of Clare County Council.
Earlier this year, 60 new street name
signs were erected in Shannon. The signs were ordered last October and a number of issues relating to their design resulted in a delay. However, they were eventually delivered and have put a nice touch on parts of the town, particularly as some areas were previously not easily identifiable. The decision to use the wording on the signs, as Gaeilge, was also welcomed by residents in the town, who are keen to cultivate an interest in the Irish lan- guage.