COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF LUCAN / PALMERSTOWN / NORTH CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, December 16, 2025

MOTION NO.6

MOTION: Councillor H. Farrell

To call on the Manager to install street name signage within all the roads and lanes in the Lucan village area, based on local information gathered by Society for Old Lucan.

REPORT:

The Council installs street name signage on Public Roads in accordance with the Official Roads Schedule. 

Road Schedule: The Road Schedule has been in existence since the inception of the Irish State and any new streets that have been added have gone through the street naming process whereby, during the planning stage, street names are assigned to individual streets.

In relation to public roads naming and signage, the Council must comply with the street names contained in the Road Schedule. 

Private lanes that are not pubic roads are not on the road schedule.  These lanes are not managed or administered by the Council.

Taking In Charge:  When developments or new roads are Taken into Charge / Taken Into Maintenance of the Council, the relevant street names are written into the Road Schedule and they are given a unique Road Identification number.  An example would be R835, Lucan Road. Taken in Charge February 1952. 

Changing a placename: There is prescribed statutory process for managing a request to change a name on a road or placename. However, newly commenced provisions under the amended Part 18 of the 2001 Act require updated Regulations to be made for the holding of plebiscites to change placenames and so, until these new Regulations have been made, no plebiscite can take place.

New Residential Developments: Planning conditions appended to grant of permissions provide for Naming and Numbering of new residential developments. While the responsibility for proposing naming and numbering schemes for new developments rests with the developer, the Council advises developers of requirements and approves the eventual scheme. The use of the Irish language exclusively is encouraged. Checks are done to ensure no duplication of road names, and at time of approval, developers are requested to ensure that any new signage erected is compliant with regulation at every stage of the process as it is necessary for the Council to ensure that any official signage erected or causes to be erected in its jurisdiction is compliant with regulations.

Full details on the Council's naming and numbering process is available here.    Naming and Numbering - SDCC 

County Signage Strategy and Budget Implications:    The County Signage Strategy provides for a range of new signage under the categories of town centres, villages, district centres, parks and key transport modes, with a view to brand and design consistency across the county.  It is intended to roll out this strategy across the county, on a phased basis , commencing with Tallaght.

There is no existing financial provision for a signage replacement programme specific to Lucan.