Mahon Street Renewal Scheme
31/10/2025
The Lord Mayor of Cork Cllr. Fergal Dennehy visited Mahon to view the recently completed Mahon Street Renewal Scheme. The scheme is Cork’s first community wide streetscape renewal programme, aimed at providing improved streets which are safer and provide multi-modal connected links to schools, retail, sport and leisure within the Mahon area.
The 5.6km long scheme extends along Ringmahon Road, Skehard Road, Avenue de Rennes, Ballinure Avenue/The Maples and Castle Road. It also includes a “quiet-way” from Castle Park to Ashwood via Loughmahon Park, and links to the Blackrock-Passage Greenway via Sean Cronin Park and to the Lower Harbour Greenway.
This €15 million investment in the Mahon area is funded by the National Transport Authority.
Features of the scheme include:
- New footpaths, carriageways, bus & cycle infrastructure including bus shelters, public lighting, traffic signals etc;
- Two new pedestrian crossings and upgrades to existing pedestrian crossings;
- Three new signalised junctions at Ringmahon Road/Skehard Road, Ringmahon Road/Avenue de Rennes and Skehard Road/Avenue de Rennes, allowing safe crossing facilities for all users;
- Enhanced public open spaces with seating and extensive landscaping including trees, shrubs and plants to create more pleasant and biodiversity friendly open spaces;
- Planting of two hundred+ specially selected semi-mature street trees
- Integrated traffic calming measures, new road markings and signage, to reduce traffic speeds and create a safer environment for all.
- Installation of approximately 5.3km of safer cycling infrastructure, including segregated cycle tracks and greenways.