Bantry, pre 1902, first rural area to adopt dual Irish/English road direction signs.

In Tom Spalding’s book on Cork street signs, Associated Editions 2013 he quotes Harry R.G. Inglis ‘the ‘Royal’ Road Book of Ireland, Edinburgh, Gall and Inglis 1902, p. 64.

‘Directions on mile-posts were painted in clear black letters on white in Irish: the English names were faintly visible in small white letters in a green background’