A planning application for the long-awaited bypass of Carrick-on-Shannon will be lodged by the end of this year.
Leitrim County Council says it hopes to submit the plans to An Bord Pleanála in the final three months of this year.
The Carrick to Dromod Project got 1.3 million euro in funding from Transport Infrastructure Ireland last week.
Carrick chamber president Finola Armstrong McGuire says it's very positive news: