After my pilgrimage to Newgrange via Duleek , my beady eyes follow the railway line westward. At a cross-roads a two-storey building points toward the sky rising above its neighbours, its moulded bargeboards perforated with circular motifs. Bingo. Former Beauparc Station (Osgood, S.) Beauparc station was opened on the original Drogheda to Navan branch line in 1850. A plaque above the platform-side doorway is impressed with the date 1857 when the station was built. But an outline of pointed red bricks to the middle of the building shows that the upper storey was a later addition. An entry in the GNR Board of Directors’ minutes recorded that a ‘design for improvement’ at Beauparc was carried out in 1894 for £235, which is possibly when the top storey was added. Just as I take my first picture of the station, the current resident greets me and stands for a good natter telling me about the former station masters and how they came to reside in the station. I commend the addition ...
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