More than 700 landowners face property loss for Cork-Limerick road

The new highway is currently expected to cost in the region of €1.5bn to construct but as the earliest, it is likely to be completed in 2030, that price could change significantly. Picture: Denis Minihane.

More than 700 landowners could face losing parts of their property as they are within the 500m-wide corridor selected for the new Cork-Limerick road.

Details of the preferred route for the new road — it still has not been decided whether it will be a motorway or dual carriageway — have finally been confirmed.