Ardagh Railway Station, County Limerick

What is recorded here

Ardagh Railway Station in Kilreash has frilly timber trim over rough limestone walls, the railway equivalent of putting a bouncer in a lace collar. You’d obey him, certainly, but you’d have to look at your shoes.

Detached two-bay two-storey with dormer attic former railway station, built c. 1867, now disused. Having gable-fronted south bay to west (front) elevation and gabled block to east (rear). Pitched slate roofs with rusticaed limestone chimneystacks and decorative timber bargeboards. Dormer window to west elevation. Rusticated limestone walls. Square-headed openings with limestone sills and six-over-six pane timber sliding sash windows.

This former station building retains much of its original form and fabric. Its stone construction and gabled form are characteristic features of railway structures of its time in Ireland. It incorporates a number of decorative features, including decorative bargeboards, which contrast and add interest to the rusticated limestone walls.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21825001

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