Cahir–Cashel: 3.03× the national road-death rate

Current representatives and the 2019 cohort

Period: 2019-01-01 to 2026-09-12 · Geography: Tipperary–Cahir–Cashel Municipal District

The current district roster has 11 elected members: four in Cahir LEA and seven in Cashel–Tipperary LEA. Marie Murphy was elected Cathaoirleach on 22 June 2026 and Micheál Anglim was elected Leas-Chathaoirleach at the same annual meeting. The elections are recorded on PDF pages 2 and 3. Sources: Council councillor information publication · Return of Persons Elected — June 2024 · Minutes of the Annual Meeting of Tipperary–Cahir–Cashel MD, 22 June 2026

The separate historical table records the 2019 boundary-era cohort. The 2018 Order took effect on 19 December 2018 and moved Cahir LEA from Clonmel Borough District into the Cashel–Tipperary arrangement. Comparing rosters does not establish why anyone did or did not return, nor responsibility for a collision. Sources: Tipperary County Council Annual Report 2019 · Tipperary County Council Annual Report 2020 · Tipperary County Council Annual Report 2022 · Return of Persons Elected — June 2024

The chair chronology is a record of named public office, not a finding about historical road decisions. The exact 2019 Leas-Chathaoirleach and exact 2019 chair-election date are not asserted because they were not established in the reviewed sources. Sources: Tipperary County Council Annual Report 2019 · Tipperary County Council Annual Report 2020 · Tipperary County Council Annual Report 2021 · Tipperary County Council Annual Report 2022 · Tipperary County Council Annual Report 2023 · Minutes of the Annual Meeting of Tipperary–Cahir–Cashel MD · Minutes of the Annual Meeting of Tipperary–Cahir–Cashel MD, 22 June 2026

Questions this record leaves open

• Which official 2018 attendance or election record, if any, supplies the missing separate roster?
• What official record fixes the 2019 chair and deputy election dates?

Engineering and public responsibility

Period: 2018-01-01 to 2026-09-12 · Geography: Tipperary–Cahir–Cashel Municipal District

The reviewed public records show dated role snapshots rather than a continuous appointment or responsibility chain. Annual reports identify Aidan Finn in 2018, Patrick Crowley in 2019–2020, transition material in 2021, and James Swords in the 2021–2025 district structures. The signed 22 June 2026 minutes record Damien Ginty as District Director, Tim Kilmartin as Area Engineer and James Murray as Senior Engineer Roads in apologies; the 26 May 2025 minutes record James Swords as District Engineer and a District Engineer's Report. Sources: Tipperary County Council Annual Report 2018 · Tipperary County Council Annual Report 2019 · Tipperary County Council Annual Report 2020 · Tipperary County Council Annual Report 2021 · Tipperary County Council Annual Report 2022 · Tipperary County Council Annual Report 2023 · Tipperary County Council Annual Report 2024 · Tipperary County Council Annual Report 2025 · Minutes of May 2025 Cahir–Cashel MD meeting · Minutes of the Annual Meeting of Tipperary–Cahir–Cashel MD, 22 June 2026

Council role descriptions distinguish elected members' reserved or representational functions from executive administration. TII describes local authorities as road authorities while retaining separate national-network roles, and Garda records describe roads-policing and collision examination rather than road design. These documentary boundaries are not a liability analysis and do not establish personal report receipt, inspection, decision, causation or responsibility. Sources: Roles, Responsibilities and Functions · Road Safety FAQs · Operations and Maintenance · Roads Policing Unit

A specific route-identity gap remains in the later Kilmoyler material: the Garda release names L3101 while the Council allocation names L-31011-0. The reviewed public record does not reconcile whether those identifiers refer to the same section. The reviewed set also does not provide a complete individual 2018–2023 LA16 chain or a site-level chain from collision or hazard record through decision, work order, completion and measured outcome. Sources: Fatal Road Traffic Collision at Kilmoyler, 24 April 2025 · Tipperary Regional and Local Roads Allocations 2025 · Service Delivery Plan 2023 · Service Delivery Plan 2024 · Service Delivery Plan 2025

Questions this record leaves open

• Which dated primary records identify the relevant engineering roles for each year without assigning responsibility for earlier collisions to later officeholders?
• Which official inspection, design, maintenance, traffic-management and completion records can be tied to a named road segment and date?
• What evidence distinguishes a public role from a case-specific decision, instruction, report receipt or responsibility?

Q4 2025 member payments

Period: 2025-10-01 to 2025-12-31 · Geography: Tipperary–Cahir–Cashel Municipal District

The official register page lists Q1 and Q2 2026. This lead table uses the Q2 2026 cover period, 1 April–30 June 2026, and 11 verified district rows. Their printed Total Payments sum to €196,828.22 and the exact-decimal component sums reconcile to €196,828.22. No amount is annualized. Sources: Councillor Payments Register — 2026 list · Q2 2026 register of payments to councillors

Security Allowance is exposed as a separate printed column rather than being hidden inside Other. Eight of the 11 MD rows show €6,761.01, totalling €54,088.08. Cathaoirleach Expenses and External Body payments are zero in this eleven-member extract. Other printed categories, including remuneration, allowances, LRA, training, conference and the chair allowances, are not generally zero. This is a printed-label result only and does not establish recurring pay, wrongdoing or any connection to crashes. Sources: Q2 2026 register of payments to councillors · Q2 2026 member summary pages

Roger Kennedy page 101 prints two distinct chair-allowance fields — Borough/MD Chair allowance €1,615.39 and SPC Chair Allowance €1,615.39 — which combine to €3,230.78. This is a period payment-record description only; it does not support any conclusion beyond the printed figures. Sources: Q2 2026 register of payments to councillors · Q2 2026 member summary pages

Q4 2025 is retained as older context only: its 1 October–31 December 2025 MD subtotal was €144,001.38. It is not the latest register, and neither Q2 2026 nor Q4 2025 is treated as an annual total. A Q2 2026 sum of the 40 printed county Total Payments fields is €694,362.67, derived for context rather than presented as a single printed county-total line. Sources: Q4 2025 register of payments to councillors · Rendered Q4 2025 MD summary pages · Q2 2026 register of payments to councillors · Q2 2026 register page layout cross-check

Questions this record leaves open

• Can the Council publish or certify an unambiguous 2025 annual period and total?
• What does LRA mean in the governing payment schedule?
• What explains the Q1 39-row publication without treating the absent row as zero?

Road budgets and actual expenditure

Period: 2018-01-01 to 2026-09-12 · Geography: Tipperary County Council and Tipperary–Cahir–Cashel Municipal District

Countywide adopted Road Transport & Safety service budgets were €43,032,387 in 2018, €49,771,833 in 2019, €52,874,519 in 2020, €59,048,543 in 2021, €63,153,614 in 2022 and €59,643,759 in 2023. These are annual gross service-division budgets from the first adopted-by-Council expenditure column, not Cahir–Cashel district money or a capital-only envelope. Sources: Adopted Budget 2018 · Tipperary County Council Adopted Budget 2019 · Adopted Budget Book 2020 · Adopted Budget Book 2021 · Adopted Budget Book 2022 · Adopted Budget Book 2023

Audited AFS Service Division B expenditure excluding reserve transfers was €44,604,872, €50,321,843, €57,521,630, €60,982,799, €58,004,005 and €63,145,112 across 2018–2023. The corresponding printed totals including transfers were €46,253,108, €51,404,294, €58,588,153, €62,153,287, €60,472,577 and €65,412,810. Small €1–€2 printed component-rounding discrepancies are retained briefly in the table notes. Sources: Audited Annual Financial Statement 2018 · Audited AFS 2019 · Audited AFS 2020 · Audited AFS 2021 · Audited AFS 2022 · Audited AFS 2023

A separately dated 2026 adopted-budget record gives a countywide Road Transport & Safety Table B total of €64,232,773, including B03 Regional €18,476,320 and B04 Local €33,161,750. These figures are annual gross county service-budget amounts, not actual spend, district budgets or capital totals; B03 and B04 are components of the Table B total and must not be added to it. No district-level 2018–2023 outturn is verified, and no 2026 Cahir–Cashel district budget is verified. Sources: Adopted Budget Book 2026

The 2020 adopted local-road figure is €26,492,703. The adjacent €26,592,703 chief-executive estimate is not substituted for the adopted amount. Department regional/local figures are allocations, not audited expenditure, and no district-level Cahir–Cashel outturn is verified. Sources: Adopted Budget Book 2020 · Regional and Local Roads Grant Allocations · Audited Annual Financial Statement 2018 · Audited AFS 2023

Later 2024–2026 named context is kept separate from the 2018–2023 core. These rows are allocations or programme lines, not actual spend; countywide bridge and greenway rows have no district road-maintenance outturn, and no 2026 Cahir–Cashel district total is claimed. Sources: 2024 Tipperary Regional and Local Roads Allocations · Tipperary Regional and Local Roads Allocations 2025 · Department of Transport Allocations for Regional and Local Roads 2026 · Service Delivery Plan 2025 · Management Report May 2026

Questions this record leaves open

• Which official records provide a reconciled Cahir–Cashel district outturn for 2018–2023?
• Which named allocations have completion certificates, invoices or final accounts, without treating a grant allocation as actual expenditure?
• How can county service budgets, audited actuals and later project allocations be compared without double counting unlike envelopes?

Anonymous crash-register coverage

Period: 2018-01-01 to 2023-12-31 · Geography: Full current Tipperary–Cahir–Cashel Municipal District reference area

The held source layer contains 21 anonymous fatal-collision records and 23 people killed. Every row has a month, a broad four-hour time band, a deceased road-user category and source coordinates assigned to the current reference boundary. Coordinates are not published here as verified exact scenes, and no anonymous row is joined to a named public incident. Sources: Map of Collisions — Source Data · CSO ROA15 — Persons Killed and Injured · CSO FY108 — statutory LEA population · 2024 statutory municipal-district boundaries

The available time-band mode is 8pm–11:59pm at 7 of 21 records (33.3%). The other broad bands are noon–3:59pm (5), 4pm–7:59pm (4), 4am–7:59am (3), 8am–11:59am (1) and midnight–3:59am (1). This is a descriptive mode, not a majority and not evidence of darkness or causation. Drivers are 11 of 21 records and 11 of 23 people; the categories do not describe every person involved in a scene. Sources: Map of Collisions — Source Data

The field matrix distinguishes source-field absence from an inaccessible or non-joinable external value. It does not say that a missing condition was absent. Exact date and time, daylight, route/class, speed, weather, surface, defect, drainage, vehicle and tyre fields remain unresolved for the anonymous rows. Sources: Map of Collisions — Source Data · Fatal Road Traffic Collision at Cahir, 5 February 2018 · Single-vehicle fatal road traffic collision at Ardmayle, 6 April 2018 · Fatal traffic collision in Tipperary, 11 June 2018 · Fatal road traffic collision on the M8, 2 September 2018 · Fatal road traffic collision at Cahir, 15 January 2019 · Fatal road traffic collision on N74, 18 July 2020 · Fatal Road Traffic Collision, County Tipperary, 19 May 2022 · Update (4): Fatal Road Traffic Collision, Cashel, 29 August 2023

Questions this record leaves open

• Which record supplies exact date, local time, road segment and scene-quality metadata for each anonymous row?
• Which lawful source-backed crosswalk, if any, can join a public event page to an anonymous register row?
• Which case-level records can resolve weather, surface, speed, drainage, vehicle, tyre and daylight fields?

Local station rainfall and weather gaps

Period: 2018-01-01 to 2023-12-31 · Geography: Cahir/Toureen, Cashel/Ballinamona and Carrick-on-Suir II station context

Flag-0 observations show incomplete but explicit valid-day coverage. Cahir/Toureen has 1,998 of 2,191 valid days (91.19%) and Cashel/Ballinamona has 2,089 of 2,191 (95.34%). The totals are observed valid-day totals only: no missing days are imputed or calendar-scaled. Sources: CAHIR (Toureen) daily rainfall CSV · CASHEL (Ballinamona) daily rainfall CSV · Rainfall measurement method

Using the 09:00–09:00 UTC station definition, Cahir records 7,243.7 mm over valid days and 58 R20 days; Cashel records 5,801.0 mm and 36 R20 days. Annual values are shown below. R20 is a daily accumulation index of at least 20 mm, not hourly intensity, road wetness, a warning classification or causation. Sources: CAHIR (Toureen) daily rainfall CSV · CASHEL (Ballinamona) daily rainfall CSV · R20mm factsheet

Carrick-on-Suir II is a compact 09:00–09:00 UTC comparison: 2,080 of 2,191 valid days (94.93%), 7,458.0 mm over valid days and 73 R20 days. The three station series do not establish a single district-wide rainfall direction, and none can be matched to an exact crash date in the 21 anonymous rows because those rows have month-only dates and broad time bands. Sources: CARRICK-ON-SUIR II daily rainfall CSV · Map of Collisions — Source Data · R20mm factsheet

Rainfall, runoff, drainage, road wetness, grip, lighting and traffic exposure remain separate variables to test. General Met Éireann and TII guidance explains measurement and drainage mechanisms but does not establish conditions at a recorded scene. Sources: Rainfall measurement method · R20mm factsheet · Drainage of Runoff from Natural Catchments · Drainage Design for National Road Schemes — Sustainable Drainage Options

Questions this record leaves open

• Which source-backed exact date and local time exist for each anonymous row?
• What hourly or sub-hourly observations, road-state records and traffic-exposure controls can test rainfall mechanisms without using band midpoints?
• How do station geometry, missingness, road class, season and drainage affect any pre-specified analysis?

Surfaces, materials, drainage and works

Period: 2018-01-01 to 2026-09-12 · Geography: Tipperary–Cahir–Cashel Municipal District and relevant Irish road standards

Within the 2018–2023 review, a Q2 2019 Council procurement disclosure separates wetmix macadam, bitumen emulsions, surface-dressing chippings and patching chippings; one wetmix entry names Cashel municipal districts. A procurement listing does not establish delivery, route or chainage, formulation, testing, payment or use on a crash section. Sources: Q2 2019 public contracts over €25,000

The 2021 municipal-district works schedule records a €43,000 N24 drainage Geo App line and a €30,000 Tankerstown Road Repair line, plus named drainage-grant locations. These are schedule entries, not a complete drainage asset, work-order, as-built, completion or payment register. Sources: Approved Schedule of Municipal District Works 2021

The 2024 Tipperary pavement framework is shown only as a later package-level context: it covers the Council's five municipal districts and states material and QA requirements, but no selected local package, delivery, installed material, test result or completion is established here. National TII standards are labelled national-road standards context, not proof of local-road compliance. Sources: TCC Multi-Party Framework Agreement for Pavement and Associated Works 2024 · CC-SPW-00900 — Road Pavements, Bituminous Materials · AM-PAV-06045 — Skid Resistance Assessment for National Roads · DN-DNG-03064 — Drainage of Runoff from Natural Catchments

Questions this record leaves open

• Which primary records identify a dated road-surface, drainage or works condition at a relevant scene?
• Which records distinguish an allocation, a proposed work, an inspection, a work order, completed work and actual expenditure?
• What contemporaneous friction, wetness, drainage, traffic-management and maintenance evidence would be needed before testing a surface or works hypothesis?

Population-based comparison and exposure limits

Period: 2018-01-01 to 2023-12-31 · Geography: State, County Tipperary and current Tipperary municipal-district reference boundaries

The existing six-year comparison uses people killed divided by a fixed 2022 population and six years. The Cahir–Cashel district has 23 people killed across 21 records, population 44,532, and a population-based rate of 8.61 per 100,000 per year, 3.03 times the State rate of 2.84. This is not individual driving risk, a traffic-exposure rate or a national unsafe-district ranking. Sources: Map of Collisions — Source Data · CSO ROA15 — Persons Killed and Injured · CSO ROA12 — All road users · CSO FY108 — statutory LEA population · CSO Census 2022 background notes · 2024 statutory municipal-district boundaries

Clonmel is a close same-basis comparator at 13 people killed, population 25,003 and 8.67 per 100,000 per year, marginally above Cahir–Cashel on this calculation. Boyle is a separate same-window comparator at 15 people killed, population 24,421 and 10.24 per 100,000 per year, 18.9% higher than Cahir–Cashel. Population is not through-traffic exposure; road class, vehicle-kilometres, seasonal travel, geometry, speed, missingness and chance remain unresolved. Sources: Map of Collisions — Source Data · CSO ROA15 — Persons Killed and Injured · CSO FY108 — statutory LEA population · CSO Census 2022 background notes · 2024 statutory municipal-district boundaries · S.I. 631/2018 — County of Roscommon and municipal-district mapping

TII traffic sources identify monitoring positions and provide traffic-count data descriptions, but the reviewed public set does not verify counter-specific annual AADT, HGV series, valid-hour coverage, segment vehicle-kilometres or a full-Municipal-District denominator for 2018–2023. Counter locations are not fatal-row joins. Sources: Traffic Count Data · Traffic counter data catalogue · TII National Roads Network Indicators 2023 · Map of Collisions — Source Data

Questions this record leaves open

• What segment-level vehicle-kilometre or other exposure denominator is available for the relevant roads and time bands?
• How sensitive are comparisons to boundary assignment, small denominators, road class, seasonality and missingness?
• Which official comparator data can be independently reconciled on the same population and collision definitions?