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R660 road (Ireland)

road in Ireland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 1, 2023
Entity authorityQ7274846 ↗
Source-derived summary

The R660 road is a regional road in County Tipperary, Ireland, which runs south–north from the Cashel to Thurles. En route it passes through the village of Holycross, where it crosses the River Suir and passes the walls of Holy Cross Abbey. The route is 21 km (13 mi) long.

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“R660 road (Ireland)” enters the record as road in Ireland. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what R660, road and Ireland can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “R660 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.