Survey Data
Reg No
15317034
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social, Technical
Original Use
Level crossing
Date
1850 - 1860
Coordinates
218437, 238797
Date Recorded
02/09/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding level crossing gates, erected c.1851, comprising a pair of gate posts supporting timber crossing gates with cast-iron diagonal bracing and cast-iron lamps to centre. Pedestrian gates to either side. Located to the north of Moate and adjacent to the west of Moate Railway Station (15317037).
Appraisal
An early level crossing gate associated with the Midland and Great Western Railway Company’s Dublin Broadstone to Galway line, which opened between Mullingar and Galway in 1851 and closed to regular rail traffic in 1987. This feature retains much of its early fabric including cast-iron fittings. This feature forms part of an important group of structures/elements associated with the Midland and Great Western Railway in south Westmeath and is a valuable addition to the civil engineering and transport heritage of Westmeath. Forms part of an interesting group of related structures associated with Moate Railway Station (15317037). It is important that these functional structures be maintained as a reminder of a great age of the railways in Ireland during the late nineteenth-century.