, County Kilkenny, prior to the opening of the M9 motorway. This section of road has since been downgraded to the R712 road In 2008 construction on the M9 section between Powerscourt and
Knocktopher replaced the old N9 road. The motorway links to the N10 at two locations, as the original N9 route did. However, the M9 passes further west, closer to Kilkenny, thus more than halving the length of the original N10 route. A new greenfield N10 route section was built from near
Dunbell (about west of Kilkenny city centre), running northwest and meeting the
Kilkenny Ring Road further north than the original connection. The original N10 has been downgraded to the
R712 road. The southern N10 section was made considerably shorter following the upgrade which now terminates at junction 9 near
Danesfort (about south of Kilkenny). The remaining section of the original N10 has been downgraded to the
R713 road. ==See also==