Toll roads in Ireland

Hmmm. I"m glad I saw this!

I attended a class on Ireland at the Rick Steves travel center a few months back, and asked about toll roads. They said there were no toll roads in Ireland. It seems that I was misinformed (or perhaps I misunderstood, although my questions was quite simple and straightforward, and the answer was clear and to the point).

However, a little googling turns up this: A GUIDE TO TOLLS AND TOLLING IN IRELAND

Thanks for bringing this up - I would have been caught by surprise in June.

Drove all over the west and south and never encountered any toll roads.

edited now that I have thought about this more, we did encounter one toll road!! I don’t remember the name of it, but we were leaving Shannon airport and headed to Dingle. I didn’t have euro’s yet, so the clerk wrote me an IOU on a piece of paper and when we returned back to Shannon, we paid up! I totally forgot about this!!

They get you around Dublin on tolls, and the rental car companies hit your credit card for the tolls.
We didn't see any toll roads in Southwest Ireland, but the roads down there are absolutely terrible. It's a country where those renting cars don't need to be marginal drivers.

The m50 motorway (ring road around Dublin) is tolled automatically at a single point between blanchardstown and liffey Valley. The Dublin to Cork, Dublin to limerick, Dublin to Galway and Dublin to Belfast roads have toll plazas where you can pay as you go through. There is a tunnel at limerick which is also tolled. The m50 toll can be paid online or in a paper shop up until 8pm the following day before late penalties apply. No need to get a toll tag if you are on holidays.

thanks for the info. I knew you could pay at tool booths outside of the M50 but mostly concerned about M50. So can I pay at any paper store? Is this like a convenience store?

Tolls on M50, M1, M3, M4, M7/M8, N6, N8, N25, Limerick tunnel, East Link Bridge, Dublin Port Tunnel.

For my M50 toll, I just pulled off at an exit and paid it at a convenience (7-11 , Wawa, type) store on the way to returning the car at the airport. Keep the receipt so you can show the rental car company that it was paid. Then keep it until you’re sure your CC won’t be charged.

First day in the rental car, leaving Dublin, we pull into a very wide toll booth lane. My wife is fumbling for coins as I steer left, rolling down the window on her side of the car. There’s no bucket for coins; not even a window. Then we hear the attendant yelling from our right: “OVER HERE! OVER HERE!” It hadn’t occurred to me that right-hand drive also means right-side toll booth. We were too far in to maneuver over, but he hollered "Just throw me something and get outa here!" Typical Irishman: friendly, funny, helpful.

Good luck!

Are the tolls for the different routes just around Dublin or are they the whole way? Right now I'm thinking of picking up a car somewhere near Dublin, driving to Belfast, looping through the north around to Galway then back to Dublin (drop my girlfriend off at the airport). After that I'm going southwest for Dingle, Skellig Michael and a few odds and ends I missed my first trip before heading back to Dublin again and drop the car.

Check out the website eflow.ie and they show the roads with tolls.