Survey Data
Reg No
40403110
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Goods shed
Date
1910 - 1930
Coordinates
236051, 291623
Date Recorded
25/07/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Detached two-bay double-height railway goods shed, built c.1920, now disused. Pitched slate roof with oversailing eaves and verges, red brick chimneystack with stepped coursesto south gable, cast-iron rainwater downpipes. Coursed squared and snecked limestone walls having red brick quoins, block-and-start surrounds, and dressings stamped with maker’s name 'Davison'. Segmental-arched openings with bull-nose reveals to side elevations. Semi-circular window to gables with metal window having spoked and concentric divisions and cut stone sills. Wide square-headed door opening and window to south gable. Cut stone platform to east elevation. Sections of platform to south alongside timber-sheeted waiting room having curved corrugated-iron roof and multiple-pane windows. Now located in garden of private house.
Appraisal
Drumhawnagh Railway Station was on the Inny Junction to Cavan branch of the Midland Great Western Railway, which opened in 1856. The former goods shed was a later addition to the station complex, not shown on the Ordnance Survey map of 1910. It is a fine example of the high standard of railway architecture in Ireland that continued into the twentieth century. It retains the characteristic appearance of railway goods shed comprising large openings to side elevations and semi-circular gable windows. The high quality stone masonry and red-brick dressed openings are characteristic of railway structures, here further distinguished by the brick maker’s mark. The waiting room, probably dating from the opening of the line is a fine structure, evocative of railway travel in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. This pair of buildings is a reminder of the scale of the rail network in the past.