Former railway station
Ireland /
Monaghan /
Carrickmacross /
World
/ Ireland
/ Monaghan
/ Carrickmacross
listed building / architectural heritage, 1860s construction
Detached three-bay two-storey railway station, built 1865, with three-bay single-storey goods shed having shallower three-bay wing. Partially reconstructed c.2005, now disused. Pitched replacement slate roof to station building with recent decorative timber bargeboards, off-centre rendered chimneystack with clay pots, second rendered stack to southern gable wall now removed. Red brick walls with sandstone ashlar block and start quoins and rendered plinth. Single remaining window to rear elevation comprising bipartite pair of one-over-one timber sashes, stone sills to all window openings. Double-leaf timber panelled door with overlight now blocked up. Pitched slate roof to goods shed, roof to three-bay wing now in ruins. Coursed-squared rubble stone walls to shed and wing with punched stone ashlar block-and-start quoins to south side of wing. Round-headed window openings with red brick surrounds. Large square-headed entrance to west side of shed and large round-headed opening to south side, pair of smaller entrances to return with red brick relieving arches, all now boarded up. Rubble stone parapet wall to platform. Railway sleepers and tracks with turntable to west.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 53°54'20"N 6°47'14"W
- St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church 13 km
- Columb Army Barracks 56 km
- St. Conleth’s Reformatory School (Daingean Reformatory) - Former 75 km
- Charleville Castle 87 km
- Ballycumber House 88 km
- Strawberry Hill House 104 km
- Kinnitty Castle Hotel 108 km
- Thomastown Park House 109 km
- Inchanappa House 109 km
- Dungar cemetery 123 km
- Dún an Rí Forest Park 1.3 km
- Knocknacran quarry 3.9 km
- Lough Fea 6.3 km
- shirley estate 6.8 km
- Mullagh Lough / Loch Mullach 16 km
- Skeagh Lough Upper 16 km
- County Louth (Contae Lú) 26 km
- County Meath (Contae na Mí) 29 km
- County Monaghan (Contae Mhuineacháin) 30 km
- County Cavan (Contae an Chabháin) 43 km