65 yearsCastlerea Railway Station
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Phil Richards · 1985 · CC BY-SA 2.0
An Caisleán Riabhach
Castlerea Railway Station
The State's own record says a company built this 65 years too early.
Phil Richards · 1985 · CC BY-SA 2.0 · ark:/99999/c4rly
65years between the two ends of this story
NIAH-31814046 · STATUTE-GSR-1925
25monuments within 2 kmSMR
2026record checked2026-08-01
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From where you are standing, 3 things to find
- 01The signal box: brick below, timber boarding and glass above, reached by cast-iron steps.
- 02The water tower, random-coursed stone with a cast-iron tank on top, its ladder and measure still in place.
- 03The level crossing gates: timber, wheel-operated, with cast-iron fittings on cut stone piers, and cast-iron lamps.
The national inventory describes this complex as built c.1860 by Great Southern Railways as part of the Sligo-Westport line.
Great Southern Railways did not exist in 1860. It was created by the Great Southern Railways Amalgamation Scheme of 1925, under the Railways Act 1924.
Two sources disagree
Built c.1860 by Great Southern Railways as part of the Sligo-Westport line.
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage · checked 2026-08-01Great Southern Railways was constituted in 1925 and cannot have built anything in 1860.
Irish Statute Book · checked 2026-08-01A tier 1 source is wrong. We publish the correction, cite both, and report it upstream rather than repeating the error in nine languages.
This is why the corpus exists. A platform that copies the inventory verbatim would carry the mistake into every language and into the voice guide.
National Inventory of Architectural HeritageIrish Statute Book
Albert Bridge · CC BY-SA 2.0
Darren J. Prior · CC BY-SA 4.0
The signal cabin in 1982, and the platform in 2019. Everything the inventory lists as surviving fabric — the timber and glass cabin, the cast-iron steps — was photographed by a passing enthusiast four decades ago, and nobody has photographed it since.
The record · ark:/99999/c4rly
- Surveyed date range 1855–1865. The appraisal:
Socially, the railway is of the utmost importance to small towns, providing a network of travel for both people and produce.
Where this comes fromchecked 2026-08-01 · ClarityWeb, against the sources listed on this page
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