Community Groups in three Clare towns are to write to Clare County Council this week to formally request that misspellings on road signs be changed.
It follows growing anger locally over the past five years, after the then National Roads Authority instructed the local authority to update signage on a popular tourist route.
Local groups set up in the towns of Lahinch, Ennistymon and Corofin are to write to the local authority this week to officially begin the legal process of changing the towns' names on road signs.
The issue arose in 2011 after the then National Roads Authority instructed Clare County Council to update official signage on the N67 tourist route.
Local spellings on signs, which had been in use for over a century, were replaced with the legal spelling contained in documentation dating back 150 years.
But locals have since described the new spellings as confusing for tourists, saying they don't tally with satellite navigation maps.
Lahinch Native Seamus Ryan insists that the issue is having a negative impact on the tourism industry in North Clare.
Once Clare County Council receives a formal request from community groups, it will then outline the legal process with regard to changing town names.
Plebicites where the local communities will vote on the issue, may then have to be held, similar to one hosted in Dingle in 2006.
Gerry Kennedy of the Corofin and District Development Company, remains optimistic that the local authority will change the road signs.
