Ceannt Railway Station

Railway station in Galway, Ireland, dating from 1850–1855

Attached twenty-two-bay single-storey over basement railway station, built 1851, having ashlar limestone walls to front and sides. Symmetrical front façade comprises three-bay deeply recessed entrance flanked to each side by two-bay advanced section, four-bay recessed section, two-bay advanced section and three-bay recessed section. Lower double-height two-bay block recessed to east end of façade and having single-bay single-storey lean-to structure recessed to latter block. Recent double-pile train shed. Five-bay single-storey former engine shed attached to south-west elevation with recent single-storey extension to north-west elevation, now in use as bus garage. Pitched roof and rainwater goods concealed behind high parapet to front façade of station having pilasters with plat band and moulded cornice. Rendered chimneystack. Flat roof behind snecked limestone parapet to two-bay block with lean-to slate roof with parapet to single-storey block. Corrugated-steel sheet roof to train shed. Pitched corrugated-steel roof to former engine shed having segmental-shaped pediment to gable with cut-stone coping stones. Ashlar walls to station house with tooled plinth and plat-band and having plat-band to eaves with moulded cornice having modillions. Pilasters to ends of elevation. Snecked limestone to basement level. Curved bay window to basement and ground floor levels of north-east ele

Type:
Railway station

Period:
1850–1855

Where:
Galway, Ireland

Coordinates:
53.27°N, 9.05°W

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