Overview
Patrickswell Railway Station is recorded as railway station, signal box in Limerick. Detached railway station and former station master's house, built in 1856, tracks being to the south of the building. Comprises projecting two-bay two-storey station master's house presenting gables to front (north) and to platform, recessed two-bay single-storey block to east having recent addition to first floor and recessed two-bay single-storey block to west with single-bay single-storey lean-to.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Detached railway station and former station master's house, built in 1856, tracks being to the south of the building.
People and work
The saved account records: Comprises projecting two-bay two-storey station master's house presenting gables to front (north) and to platform, recessed two-bay single-storey block to east having recent addition to first floor and recessed two-bay single-storey block to west with single-bay single-storey lean-to.
How it changed
The saved account records: Pitched slate roofs with cut limestone chimneystacks.
What survives
The saved account records: Snecked cut limestone walls having rusticated limestone plinth course.
Why it mattered
Patrickswell Railway Station matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: Built on the main Limerick to Kerry railway line, this structure was once an important part of the vast railway network built in Ireland. Design and detailing are apparent in the building's construction through features such as the snecked limestone walls, chimneystacks and limestone dressings. The station along, with the bridge and signal box, makes an interesting group of associated buildings. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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