Surveying for National Broadband Plan completed for further 1,800 Leitrim homes

National Broadband Ireland (NBI), the company rolling out the new high speed fibre broadband network under the Government’s National Broadband Plan (NBP) today announced that engineering survey works for over 1,800 Leitrim premises in the Carrigallen deployment area are now completed.

Homes, businesses and farms in townlands such as Aughavas, Drumreilly and Keeldra are included in this deployment area.

In Leitrim, there are approximately 12,000 premises in the Intervention Area (IA), which includes homes, farms, commercial businesses, and schools. This will enable e-learning, remote monitoring of livestock or equipment, e-health initiatives, better energy efficiency in the home, and facilitate increased levels of remote working. 

NBI crews have made substantial progress in Carrigallen, where 1,811 Leitrim premises included in the deployment area have recently completed engineering surveying work.

These initial works pave the way for the next stage of deploying fibre on poles/ducts and includes the erection of poles, unblocking of ducts, and the insertion of sub duct into existing ducts, for the fibre to be installed. 

There are 957 homes, businesses, and farms in County Leitrim that can order or pre-order high-speed, reliable broadband. National Broadband Ireland is calling on people living in Leitrim to visit https://nbi.ie/eoi/ to sign up for updates on when they will be able to connect.

NBI Chief Executive Peter Hendrick said: “Our teams continue to work on the rollout plan and good progress has been made on surveying, design, and build works in County Leitrim.”  

“We’re confident that the rollout will continue to gather pace as we look to connect thousands more homes and businesses. We know that people want access to high-speed broadband and our goal is to deliver that as quickly as possible.” 

“Survey and designs are an important part of mapping out how every home, farm and business will be connected, and they provide the blueprint for how the NBI fibre is laid.

“The BCPs are also a key milestone in delivering access to high-speed internet in the Intervention Area, and we’re delighted to see these being connected for access - internally and externally - right across Leitrim.”