tarboat's photos with the keyword: monaghan

At the back of the former Great Northern Railway of Ireland twelve road locomotive shed at Clones in County Monaghan. Built in 1925 it closed with then railway in 1959 and the premises were subsequently modified and used by a company that constructed tank containers. Around 2003 this business got into financial difficulties and the works has since been used for steel fabrication although that appears to have come to an end in the loco shed building. At the back of the roundhouse the steel fabrication work was extended into this corrugated lean-to structure. The pipework is for extraction from the bays that were used for paint spraying and shotblasting.

Inside the old roundhouse the stalls where the locomotives were stabled have been converted for engineering use.

The is only one canal tunnel in Ireland and this is to be found on the remains of the Ulster Canal in Monaghan town. It allowed the canal to pass under Old Cross Square and was 174 ft long with a towpath to one side. Today the western end is infilled and the portal is not visible.

The Great Northern Railway of Ireland constructed a twelve road locomotive shed at Clones in County Monaghan in 1925. This was the first of its type in Ireland and comprised a reinforced concrete structure to a design by the Indented Bar Company of London. It curves through 130 degrees and had 12 radial bays to contain the locomotives. The railway closed in 1959 and the premises were subsequently modified and used by a company that constructed tank containers. Around 2003 this business got into financial difficulties and the works has since been used for steel fabrication although that appears to have come to an end in the loco shed building. There was a slightly later and identical example at Portadown in County Armagh, but this has been demolished.

Prehistoric or post-industrial? Originally constructed as a timber truss bridge this viaduct carried the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway (later Great Northern Railway of Ireland) on the approaches to the River Finn crossing. It was later replaced by lattice girder spans on braced metal trestles and then in c1925 it was replaced again by steel plate girder spans on cylindrical piers. On closure in 1959 the deck and much of the metal casing from the piers was removed, just leaving the pillars with one cross beam as a monument to the railway.