Link Road L3201 through Skehana

The road through Skehana only became a fully surfaced finished road in the 1950s. Prior to this it was not much better than a sandy boreen. The road to Colemanstown was not finished to this standard until the Early 1960s. The stone for the project was acquired locally for the road and crushed on site by a stone crusher that moved along with the work as it progressed through the village. Some small quarries existed in fields along the way and stone was quarried from those to help meet the requirements. Some local people were employed in the project and others that had lorries or could get the use of a lorry were also given work.

Road Improvements Suspended:

Road improvement schemes and road maintenance were effectively suspended during World War II due to the scarcity of tar and bitumen. After the war, roads that had deteriorated due to lack of maintenance during the war were restored and other improvements were made: “the effect of all these measures was a marked improvement in both main and county roads. In the 1950s, as already stated, the road through Skehana going on to Mullaghmore found its way to the top of the list for modernisation and was upgraded.

Today roads are signed with M (for motorways), N (for national roads), R (for regional roads) and L (for Local link roads). The appearance of L road-numbers on signposts only began in 2006, along with European route numbers on some major roads.