Survey Data
Reg No
41401504
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Railway station
Date
1920 - 1925
Coordinates
282451, 325552
Date Recorded
01/04/2012
Date Updated
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Description
Railway station complex at Creaghanroe, built c.1923, comprising railway station, remains of platform and stationmaster's house. Built as part of Great Northern Railway Line from Castleblayney to Armagh via Keady. Multiple-bay single-storey station building, with flat-roofed extension to rear. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and red brick chimneystack. Timber tongue and groove cladding to walls, with timber lettering 'MOORES' to road elevation. Segmental-headed window openings with original two-over-two pane timber sliding sash windows and timber block-and-start window surrounds. Square-headed fixed timber window openings to north and south ends of front elevation, one set within former doorway. Square-headed door opening with timber battened door to south. Recent brick-built windbreak to front porch with metal gate. Remains of platform to rear. Former petrol station forecourt to front of site. Former stationmaster's house to north, much altered and now in use as private dwelling. Set back from road at busy crossroads.
Appraisal
This former railway station was clad in timber, a rare example of the form and making this one of the more distinctive railway structure in County Monaghan. It was used as a shop and petrol station from the 1950s to about 1999 and retains its original windows. The station building, former stationmaster's house and remains of a platform make an interesting group of railway-related structures and are a reminder of the extensive railway network that once serviced County Monaghan, with its social significance for this rural community. This station on the Great Northern Line serving from Castleblayney to Armagh opened in 1923 but closed very shortly afterwards in c.1928.