Speed Camera Locations in Ireland 2026: Map of Every Garda Zone

How GoSafe speed camera zones work

Most speed cameras in Ireland are not fixed to a pole. They’re in marked vans run by GoSafe (Road Safety Operations Ireland) on behalf of An Garda Síochána. A van can only be sent to an approved safety camera zone — a stretch of road the Garda have picked because of its crash record. A zone can be a few hundred metres of a Dublin street or more than 20 km of motorway.

How a stretch of road becomes a zone

• Collision history. The Garda weight the fatal, serious and minor collisions on each stretch. The zones on the map above were justified by 231 fatal, 1,973 serious and 5,637 minor collisions in total.
• Community requests. Residents can ask for a zone through their local Garda superintendent. The request goes to the Office of Safety Camera Management, and GoSafe does a site visit and speed survey before it’s approved. There are 70 of these zones in the current data.

1,901 or 1,916? Why you’ll see two numbers

The Garda’s headline figure is 1,901 zones, “correct as of 1 January 2026”: 1,456 existing zones, 390 new zones and 55 community requests. The zone spreadsheet the Garda publish was updated in May 2026 and now lists 70 community-request zones, which brings the total to 1,916. This page maps every zone in that latest spreadsheet.

390 new speed camera zones for 2026

On 1 January 2026 the Garda switched on 390 new GoSafe zones — the biggest single expansion of the network. They’re the amber lines on the map. Together they add about 746 km of enforced road. These counties gained the most:

Tip: untick everything except New for 2026 in the map legend to see only the new zones near you.

Average-speed cameras in Ireland

Average-speed cameras use number-plate recognition at an entry point and an exit point. If you cover the distance between them faster than the limit allows, you get the same €160 fine and 3 points as for any other speeding offence. Braking for one camera doesn’t help — it’s your average over the whole stretch that counts. There are five systems. They’re the purple dashed lines on the map.

Static speed cameras in Ireland

Ireland has 9 static speed cameras — fixed cameras that measure your speed at one point. The locations were announced in May 2024, chosen from seven years of fatal and serious collision data, and the cameras went live between December 2024 and August 2025. They’re the red S pins on the map.

When the locations were first announced, the N25 camera was described as “Waterford, N25, between Glenmore and Luffany”. The Garda now list the live camera as N25 Ballynamona, Glenmore, Co. Kilkenny, just on the Kilkenny side of the county boundary.

What about the 100 new cameras?

Budget 2025 set aside €9 million for up to 100 new speed cameras, with a promise to have them working during 2025. As of October 2026 the Garda still list nine static cameras. Ireland’s first National Safety Camera Strategy, published on 29 April 2026, hands responsibility for fixed and average-speed cameras to Transport Infrastructure Ireland. Gardaí will still do the enforcement. The strategy doesn’t give a number of new cameras or a date. We’ll add any new cameras to the map as the Garda publish them.

Speed camera locations by county

Every county has GoSafe zones. Dublin has by far the most — 329, mostly short urban stretches of regional roads — followed by Cork, Kildare and Galway. The table below counts every zone in the Garda’s 2026 data, including the 390 new zones and 70 community requests. Click a county name to jump to its full road-by-road list.

Every zone, road by road

Each list gives the road, the nearest town or village and the length of the zone. A GoSafe van can park anywhere along that stretch, so treat the whole length as the place to watch your speed — not just the town named.

The most-enforced roads in Ireland

Counting zones per road shows where GoSafe spends its time outside Dublin: long national routes through towns and villages with a history of crashes. The N71 through West Cork and Kerry has more zones than any other road.

Zones with the most recorded collisions

The Garda publish the number of fatal, serious and minor collisions behind each zone. These ten have the highest totals. All but one are in the Dublin area, where short, busy urban roads see many low-speed crashes.

What happens if you’re caught by a speed camera

If you’re summonsed, you can still pay €320 up to 7 days before the court date and take 3 points instead of 5. Twelve points in three years means a six-month ban. For learner and novice drivers it’s seven points. Read the full rules in our penalty points guide and the N-plate rules.

How many drivers get caught

In the first half of 2026 the Garda issued 119,644 speeding fixed charge notices where the driver wasn’t stopped at the roadside — the kind cameras produce. Another 21,919 were issued after a Garda stopped the car. Over the 2026 August bank holiday weekend alone, 5,054 drivers were caught speeding. They included one driver doing 139 km/h in a 100 km/h zone on the N7 at Johnstown, and one doing 114 km/h in a 60 km/h zone on the Navan Road in Dublin 15.

Sat-navs, camera apps and radar detectors

• Radar detectors and laser jammers are illegal. Under the Road Traffic (Speed Meter Detectors) Regulations 1991 it’s an offence to have one in your car, even switched off. Selling or fitting one is also an offence, and Gardaí can seize them.
• Sat-nav camera warnings are a different matter. The Garda publish every zone and offer the files for sat-nav providers to download. We couldn’t find any Irish law that bans the camera alerts in apps like Waze or Google Maps. That’s our reading, not legal advice.
• There’s no official “tolerance”. The Garda don’t publish a margin over the limit before a camera triggers. Don’t rely on anything you read online about one.

The simplest way to never get a camera fine is to drive at the posted limit. Our speed limits guide explains every default limit, including the 60 km/h limit on rural local roads that came in on 7 February 2025.

Frequently asked questions

Sources and how to stay up to date

Every camera on this page comes from An Garda Síochána. The zone map uses the Garda’s 2026 zone spreadsheet and KMZ files. We matched each zone to its road number and nearest town using OpenStreetMap, because the Garda data only gives coordinates. Zones can change during the year, so for the latest official position check the Garda pages linked below. You can also load their KMZ files into Google Earth or your sat-nav.