1850
Board of Public Works / Office of Public Works
Co. Monaghan
Enoch T. Owen (1833-1881)
Monaghan
police station
RIC Barracks
Random Building
1824 – Monaghan Gaol, Co. Monaghan
1850 – Former Garda Station, Monaghan, Co. Monaghan
Architect: E.T. Owen / Board of Public Works
Like many buildings around the country from the time of the British administration, the former Police Station in Monaghan has an urban legend connected. The story goes that the plans for the building were sent to the wrong foreign outpost and that Monaghan got a police station design that was meant for the Transvaal in South Africa. Presumably this means that there is a large Hiberno-romanesque style station in a town there. Other towns in Ireland have similar stories, the former Brunswick Hospital in Dublin was “meant” for Australia.
The station is a fine tall stone structure with pointed windows on all levels – and probably designed to be defended. Renovated for use as offices after the new station alongside was completed.