It runs from Limerick to Tralee and passes through Mungret, Clarina, Kildimo, Askeaton (bypassed), Foynes, Loghill, Glin, Tarbert, and Listowel.

Four kilometres of dual carriageway were added to the N69, the first such section to be included in this route.

It is a six kilometre single carriageway around the north and west of the town.

It then passes through the port town of Foynes and the villages of Loghill and Glin before crossing into County Kerry.

The road then goes South, by the village of Kilflynn before reaching the Forge Cross Roundabout in Tralee.