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R327 road (Ireland)

road in Ireland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ7274559 ↗
Source-derived summary

The R327 road is a regional road in Ireland connecting the N60 east of Claremorris, County Mayo, to the R360 in County Galway.

The official description of the R327 from the Roads Act 1993 (Classification of Regional Roads) Order 2006 reads:

R327: Cuilmore, County Mayo - Pollremon, County Galway

Between its junction with N60 at Cuilmore in the county of Mayo and its junction with R360 at Pollremon in the county of Galway via Tulrohaun and Lugboy Cross in the county of Mayo: Culnacleha Bridge at the boundary between the county of Mayo and the county of Roscommon: Cloonfad in the county of Roscommon: and Kildaree in the county of Galway.

The road is 20 km (12 mi) long.

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This entry incorporates text from “R327 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.