Location type

Station

Name and dates

Recess Hotel Platform (1902-1922)

Opened on the Clifden Branch (Midland Great Western Railway).

Description

This single platform halt was opened for the Midland Great Western Railway Recess Hotel. The hotel was located in a remote, wild and beautiful area of moorland, lough and mountain.

The platform was on the north side of the single track line, with the hotel just to its north. Lissoughter Lodge was just to the south east.

The hotel was acquired by the railway in 1895 and rebuilt for 1898. The halt opened in 1902. The existing Recess station was about a mile west.

The hotel closed in 1922 after being burned down during the Civil War, the Republicans denying its use for billeting to the Free State Army.

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