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Foxford Railway Station

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Foxford Railway Station
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Foxford Railway Station in Clossaghroe lost its station building but kept the water tower. That’s a fairly thorough Irish goodbye: the trains have stopped, the building’s gone, and one tank is still standing there saying it’ll head off shortly.

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Freestanding single-bay single-stage water tower, commissioned 1868[?]; extant 1895, on a square plan. Decommissioned, 1963. Now disused. Part ivy-covered tuck pointed "pulvinated" ashlar walls supporting overgrown cast-iron water tank. Set in unkempt grounds originally shared with Foxford Railway Station.
An overgrown water tower surviving as an interesting relic of the Foxford Railway Station complex following the demolition of the diagonally opposing railway station (built 1867-8; opened 1868; closed 1963).

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 31306007

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Pictures: Pamela Norrington, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Kay Atherton, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Pamela Norrington, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; JohnArmagh, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; Liz McCabe, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Liz McCabe, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Ray Martin, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; John D. Reigh, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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