Monaghan Railway Station

Detached gable-fronted five-bay single-storey former railway goods shed, built c.1860, with lower two-bay single-storey projections to long elevations, now in use as retail unit. Pitched corrugated-iron roofs with stone copings, projecting skew-blocks, stone eaves-course, and replacement rainwater goods. Coursed squared rock-faced limestone walls, having square rock-faced surrounds to openings with margins. Oculi with dressed surrounds to upper gables, depressed-arch headed recesses in arcade style to side elevations with rock-faced imposts, windows now blocked up, and square-headed panels to pilaster-like piers. Round-headed window openings to gable elevations having timber casement windows, blind openings to end bays. Round-arch door openings to gable elevations having timber glazed door to west opening, double-leaf hinged battened timber doors to east. Set within grounds of former railway goods yard.

This impressive stone building was evidently designed in the discipline of nineteenth-century architecture and was constructed using high quality and robust masonry skills. The use of rock facing is particularly associated with railway architecture and the arcading evident throughout the structure links it visually with the adjacent railway station. Details such as blind openings, oculi and panels are decorative and help to place the building firmly within the genre of classical revival architectural design. It is an important reminder in Monaghan of the age of steam.