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Railway station in Derreenacullig

Railway station
Railway station in Derreenacullig
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Railway station in Derreenacullig became a youth hostel after the trains stopped. At last, ‘I slept in the station and missed every train’ was a holiday you could recommend.

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Detached T-plan five-bay single- and two-storey former railway station, opened 1893, comprising single-bay two-storey central block, two-bay single-storey recessed flanking end bays and three-bay two-storey return to rear to south-east. Closed in 1960. Single-bay single-storey flat-roofed entrance bay added to accommodate use as youth hostel. Pitched and hipped slate roofs with clay ridge tiles, rendered chimneystack, overhanging eaves and cast-iron profiled gutter and downpipes. Painted roughcast rendered walls. Tripartite windows to west at ground and first floors with original sliding sash windows. Replacement timber windows to remaining openings. Render doorcase with cornice and blocking course, having replacement door. Retaining interior features. Remains of rubble stone-built platform, built c. 1890, along west elevation. Signal, buffer and name-plate relocated to south side. Railway bridge to north.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 21307601

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Ian Paterson, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Pam Brophy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Graham Horn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Vadim Manuylov, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; Peter Gerken, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Sitomon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Ian S, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Marathon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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