Road signs in Ireland
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Re: Road signs in Ireland
They weren't big on route numbers then, were they? And it looks like the old Gaelic font must have been near enough unreadable.
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Re: Road signs in Ireland
Oddly the fingerpoint signs at the junction had the route number, these were widely used, the ADS only on main roads.Chris Bertram wrote:They weren't big on route numbers then, were they?
All in all that iteration of direction signage wasn't as well thought out as the warning signs.
![Image](https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/images/si171y62p0026a.jpg)
Possibly it hadn't undergone the same evolution from books to signage as roman. However, on the 1926 warning signs I find it as legible as the All CAPS sans serif English text.And it looks like the old Gaelic font must have been near enough unreadable.
![Image](https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/images/v14p1290signs.gif)
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Re: Road signs in Ireland
Old no parking sign
![Image](https://www.olddublintown.com/uploads/1/7/5/0/17506079/7829777_orig.jpg)
![Image](https://www.olddublintown.com/uploads/1/7/5/0/17506079/7829777_orig.jpg)
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Re: Road signs in Ireland
The photo isn't clear. I expect the top half is ná páirceáil (no parking) and the bottom some sort of detail on that, but I cannot make it out.Berk wrote:What do the words on the sign say??
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Re: Road signs in Ireland
It's a hinged sign so probably ON THIS SIDE TODAY.
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Re: Road signs in Ireland
I'd like to know what all the people are looking at.bothar wrote:Old no parking sign
Re: Road signs in Ireland
Something fancy I imagine.Owain wrote:I'd like to know what all the people are looking at.bothar wrote:Old no parking sign
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Re: Road signs in Ireland
This shop was very well known. It was run by a larger than life character from Scotland, who had a greater gift of the gab than the Irish, and who was never surpassed in self promotion.
http://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/1214/83 ... he-people/
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Re: Road signs in Ireland
I think you're right. Such hinged signs, regulating unilateral -- alternating from day to day, and usually time-restricted -- parking were once common in GB too. The Irish wording is therefore probably ar (an) taobh seo inniu.Bryn666 wrote:It's a hinged sign so probably ON THIS SIDE TODAY.
Re: Road signs in Ireland
This seems likely, you can see the T in the second word.Viator wrote:I think you're right. Such hinged signs, regulating unilateral -- alternating from day to day, and usually time-restricted -- parking were once common in GB too. The Irish wording is therefore probably ar (an) taobh seo inniu.Bryn666 wrote:It's a hinged sign so probably ON THIS SIDE TODAY.
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"I intend to always travel a different road"
Ibn Battuta 1304-1368
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Re: Road signs in Ireland
I agree. ALL CAPS always equals lower legibility in my view (my main grouse against French directional signage which, in other respects, I find excellent).bothar wrote:[...] on the 1926 warning signs I find it as legible as the All CAPS sans serif English text.Chris Bertram wrote:And it looks like the old Gaelic font must have been near enough unreadable.
Another thing is that (while I wholeheartedly prefer symbols alone) the Irish-language texts in these examples do frequently make more sense than those in English: e.g. bóthar trasna ("road across") vs junction end (eh? what?); iol-bhóithre ("multi-roads") vs junction complex.
Re: Road signs in Ireland
1950s signage in Carlow
http://www.igp-web.com/Carlow/Dublin_Street_7.jpg
http://www.igp-web.com/Carlow/Dublin_Street_7.jpg
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Ibn Battuta 1304-1368
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Re: Road signs in Ireland
AA road sign at junction
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-1950s ... 89227.html
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-1950s ... 89227.html
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Ibn Battuta 1304-1368
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Re: Road signs in Ireland
This would be a better warning sign than anything we have in the UK for this junction, which routinely causes near-gridlock and near-misses.
Rather than JUNCTION COMPLEX, the caption should be changed to COMPLEX JUNCTION, perhaps with an exclamation mark.
Re: Road signs in Ireland
Nice crossroads sign. I think this possibly on N2 north of Ashbourne, but it is a zoom lense of some sort.
![Image](https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/rashers/Dublin/oldsignpost.jpg)
![Image](https://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y241/rashers/Dublin/oldsignpost.jpg)
"I intend to always travel a different road"
Ibn Battuta 1304-1368
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Re: Road signs in Ireland
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Re: Road signs in Ireland
Another oldie, with a parking sign and directional signs at this junction
"I intend to always travel a different road"
Ibn Battuta 1304-1368
Ibn Battuta 1304-1368