Survey Data
Reg No
14824014
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social, Technical
Original Use
Railway station
In Use As
House
Date
1850 - 1880
Coordinates
207584, 221933
Date Recorded
05/10/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached three-bay two-storey former railway station, built in 1884, on the Clara to Banagher line of the Great Southern and Western Railway. Single-storey structure to rear. Station now in domestic use. Situated on roadside. Pitched and hipped slate roofs with terracotta ridge tiles, red brick chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Smooth rendered plinth with roughcast rendered walls, corbelled cornice with red brick course. Timber sash windows with stone sills, replacement timber casement windows to first floor. Square-headed door opening with replacement timber panelled door surmounted by overlight. Cut stone railway platform to rear with moulded nosing to kerb.
Appraisal
The former Belmont and Cloghan Railway Station, located on a quiet country road just outside the small village of Belmont, is an important structure in both our social and architectural history. Built at a time when the rail network stretched all over Ireland it remains as a testament to the engineers and craftsmen. Prominent features include the elaborated cornice course, paired timber sash windows and a plain, but attractive, door overlight. The site is made more significant due to the retention of the cut stone railway platform to the rear. The station was closed in 1963.