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R123 road (Ireland)

road in Ireland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ7274385 ↗
Source-derived summary

The R123 road is a regional road in Fingal, Ireland.

The official description of the R123 from the Roads Act 1993 (Classification of Regional Roads) Order 2012 reads:

R123: Maynetown - Balgriffin, County Dublin

Between its junction with R106 at Maynetown and its junction with R107 at Balgriffin via Snugborough and Balgriffin Park all in the county of Fingal.

Editorial summary

“R123 road (Ireland)” enters the record as road in Ireland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what R123, road and Ireland can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around R123, road and Ireland.
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Why this record matters

“R123 road (Ireland)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, R123, road and Ireland provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7274385. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1993 and 2012.

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The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “R123 road (Ireland)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.