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Former Railway Stations in Cavan "Ballyheady Station" and "Killywilly Station"

  • 07-07-2009 1:05pm
    #1
    lynchiered
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 102 ✭✭


    Has anybody heard of the following County Cavan Railway stastions

    "Ballyheady Station"
    and
    "Killywilly Station"

    Looking for some info on them, found them listed on a protected building list on Cavan co co website???


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  • #2
    munchkin_utd
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    theres a ballyheady and killywilly directly along the path of the cavan leitrim railway either side of Ballyconnell.
    I would presume that these are the 2 places in question.

    The railway seems to cross at exactly the location of ballyheady bridge so I am wondering did the railway use the same bridge as other traffic?
    I know the area down there reasonably well but i never knew there was a station down there.

    I'll ask my dad what the craic is as he was the local creamery manager down there back in the late 60s so maybe he knows something about the railway!!

    EDIT: Ballyheady is on the map below. Tomkin Road would be at Killywilly
    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e4/Map_Rail_Ireland_Viceregal_Commission_1906.jpg


  • #3
    Rawr
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    lynchiered wrote: »
    Has anybody heard of the following County Cavan Railway stastions

    "Ballyheady Station"
    and
    "Killywilly Station"

    Looking for some info on them, found them listed on a protected building list on Cavan co co website???

    http://eiretrains.com/Photo_Gallery/B/Ballyheady/A&Bindex.html
    Here's Ballyheady on Eiretrains.
    As for Killywilly...couldn't find it I'm afraid.


  • #4
    DWCommuter
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    This site has a map reference for it.

    http://www.trainweb.org/i3/places/h303178.htm#h303178


  • #5
    Chris_533976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭Chris_533976


    Killywilly - what a name :D


  • #6
    DWCommuter
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    Chris_533976 wrote: »
    Killywilly - what a name :D

    Great name for a contraceptive!

    Now what has that to do with C&T? Well you could be using it on a train from Westport to a U2 concert.....for example. Ahem....and all that...right I'll go!


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  • #7
    Victor
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    It is possible that they are marked on Cavan county Council maps.


  • #8
    Nostradamus
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    Chris_533976 wrote: »
    Killywilly - what a name :D

    It's Ireland's answer to Lesbos.


  • #9
    HeritageRailway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40 ✭HeritageRailway


    Victor wrote: »
    It is possible that they are marked on Cavan county Council maps.

    Killywilly station isn't recorded on maps as it isn't even a town land it's so small. It just was a mile down the line after Tomkin Road station, it opened in May 1888 and it closed in June 1888, just two months later!


  • #10
    Rawr
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    HeritageRailway wrote: »
    Killywilly station isn't recorded on maps as it isn't even a town land it's so small. It just was a mile down the line after Tomkin Road station, it opened in May 1888 and it closed in June 1888, just two months later!

    It's amazing to think that they went to the effort of constucting a station there for just 2 months use.


  • #11
    DWCommuter
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    Rawr wrote: »
    It's amazing to think that they went to the effort of constucting a station there for just 2 months use.

    Its even more amazing that the building is still apparently standing!


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  • #12
    HeritageRailway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40 ✭HeritageRailway


    Rawr wrote: »
    It's amazing to think that they went to the effort of constucting a station there for just 2 months use.

    Seemingly the station seems to have been built well after the line opened; it obviously was in a poor location given it's closeness to Tomkin Road and Ballyconnell.


  • #13
    Micilin Muc
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    Here's some info on Killywilly

    Press the Archival Records icon on the right-hand side ...


  • #14
    HeritageRailway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 40 ✭HeritageRailway


    DWCommuter wrote: »
    Its even more amazing that the building is still apparently standing!

    I'd guess that signal cabins or iron/wooden sheds aside, more railway structures stand than any other comparable buildings of their time; a testament to their build, heritage and architectural qualities.


  • #15
    Victor
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    In fairness, in that era, I think its a matter of who built the building and what it was built for.

    The post offices, banks, police stations and better off houses of the era are generally still standing, although not necessarily up to modern standards. The shacks and cottages of the poor, have, in the most part, gone or are used as animal sheds and the like.


  • #16
    Eiretrains
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    There's a good possibility Killywilly Station was more of a halt than a decent sized station, with no great expense used in its construction. It may have been something like at Ballyheady, or Kilturbird, which was merely an addition to the existing crossing keepers house, some halts didn't have platforms either and were merely stopping places by the roadside or level crossings, a common feature on less intensive railway lines in Ireland. Such stopping places had chequred careers, opening several years after a line was built to generate additional revenue, only to close shortly after when it was found that they were not justified.

    I would be interesting in seeing pictures of Killywilly.


  • #17
    lanarkdavy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭lanarkdavy


    HeritageRailway wrote: »
    Killywilly station isn't recorded on maps as it isn't even a town land it's so small. It just was a mile down the line after Tomkin Road station, it opened in May 1888 and it closed in June 1888, just two months later!

    Not sure if this is accurate. My grandfathers family lived at Killywilly. The station was working when he was a boy in the early 1900's. The station building is still there and is now a private home. I have pictures of it. The railway bridge crossed the river upstream of my grandfathers family house and mill at Killywilly.


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