Survey Data
Reg No
32402006
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Train shed
Date
1850 - 1900
Coordinates
167226, 329506
Date Recorded
02/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Detached six-bay single-storey stone railway goods shed, built c. 1875. Pitched slate roof projecting as canopy on west, clay ridge tiles, brick chimneystacks, painted projecting timber barges on paired profiled purlin ends, half-round cast-iron gutters mounted on rafter ends, cast-iron downpipes. Squared rubble limestone, tooled ashlar limestone quoins, ashlar plinth. Circular window openings, yellow brick surrounds, painted timber multi-pane casement windows. Semi-circular window openings to north and south gables, yellow brick surrounds, limestone sills, painted timber multi-pane casement windows. Square-headed door openings, yellow brick surrounds, doors missing. Railway track to east, coursed rubble limestone boundary wall between goods shed and station house to north.
Appraisal
This railway goods shed, while now disused and in a state of dereliction, retains a great deal of its original form and character. The limestone stonework and yellow brick dressings to openings are of a high quality. Along with the adjacent and equally well-built station house to the north, the goods shed provides a reminder of the busy rail network which spread across Ireland in the nineteenth century.