IRISH TRANSPORTATION

By peadar
  • Jun 15, 1000

    Viking Roads in Dublin

    Dublin's raods originally built by Vikings. Built to avoid bogland, so very erratic. Unfortunately, still the same layout today.
  • Period: Jun 15, 1000 to

    IRISH TRANSPORTATION

  • Royal Canal Opens

    Royal Canal Opens

    Navigates netween Longford and Spencer Dock, Dublin. Closed in 1960, now reopened for tourism.

  • First Trains Stockton-darlington Railway 1820s

  • Dublin-Kingstown Railway opens

    Now called the DART. opened to serve the new pier at Dun Leary. named after Geoirge Iv, who was drunk when he came.

  • Dublin-Cork Railway 1849

  • Waterford-Tramore railway

  • Car invented: Damiler-Benz

    Daimler and Benz introduce first car. They may have visited Ireland on holiday.

  • Ireland covered in railways

  • Ford Factory opens in Cork

    Ford Factory opens in Cork

  • First Atlantic air crossing-Clifden

    Alcock and Brown land inClifden after becomeing the first people to cross the Atlantic by air.

  • Dublin's first buses

  • Aer Lingus Founded

    Aer Lingus Founded

  • Dublin Airport opens

  • Shamrock Car briefly produced in Monaghan 1960

    Shamrock Car briefly produced in Monaghan 1960

    Made by an American who was visitng his auntie. Didn't last long

  • Rural railways shut down

  • Ireland's first motorway- Northern Ireland

  • Ryanair

    Founded as a business class airline by Tony Ryan of GPA.

  • Dublin Airport Termional 2 Opens