R574 road (Ireland)

R574 road
Road network

Coordinates: 51°43′20″N 9°45′26″W / 51.722192°N 9.757088°W / 51.722192; -9.757088

Cork side of the Healy Pass
Historical information plaque

The R574 is an Irish regional road in the Beara peninsula which crosses the Caha Mountains via the (Tim) Healy Pass.[1] It runs from the R572 at Adrigole in County Cork to the R571 near Lauragh in County Kerry.[1] It is a popular tourist route with the pass at an altitude of 300m giving panoramas towards Bantry Bay to the south-east and the Kenmare River to the north-west.

The original track, called the Kerry Pass, was cut during the Great Famine as a poor relief public works project. It was renamed for Timothy Michael Healy, former Governor-General of the Irish Free State, who died in 1931 shortly after the road was improved.[2] The name "Healy Pass" is now also applied to the pass itself, previously called Ballaghscart or Ballyscarta, anglicisations of Irish: Bealach Scairte, which remains its Irish name.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "S.I. No. 54/2012 — Roads Act 1993 (Classification of Regional Roads) Order 2012.". Irish Statute Book. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
  2. Callanan, Frank (1996). T.M. Healy. Cork University Press. p. 627. ISBN 9781859181720. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
  3. "Healy Pass". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
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