placenamesGoold's Cross
Crois an Ghúlaigh
Goold's Cross developed around the main railway and its branch to Cashel, leaving a group of station buildings and traces of former railway infrastructure.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Crois an Ghúlaigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Goold's Cross · English · main form
Place & story
The station and its house
Goold's Cross station opened in 1849 and closed in 1976, according to Tipperary Studies' catalogue of an undated railway-cottages postcard. The architectural inventory separately estimates the surviving station and stationmaster's house to about 1860. These buildings form a T-shaped arrangement, with a single-storey station block and a taller house at right angles. Dressed limestone walls, substantial chimneys and carefully worked opening surrounds reflect the attention given to a comparatively small railway station. [2] [3]
The branch towards Cashel
The railway photographer's account on Eiretrains identifies Goold's Cross as the junction for the short Cashel branch, which diverged south of the station. The branch opened in 1901 and lost its regular passenger and goods services in 1947. Cattle traffic continued afterwards. The account records remaining traces of the junction and trackbed, connecting this quiet location on the Dublin–Cork main line with Cashel's former railway link. [4]
Changes to the railway landscape
Eiretrains also documents the changes following closure of the signal cabin in 1986. Alterations to the signalling layout removed the down platform, crossovers and sidings. The photographer recorded the surviving station building, remnants of a waiting shelter and the dismantled footbridge in the old goods yard. These observations describe a railway landscape being reduced and altered, rather than a station preserved complete after its passenger service ended. [4]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Kilnamanagh Lower
- Civil parish
- Clonoulty
- Within
- Clonoulty West
- Within
- Kilmore
- Coordinates
- 52.59100, -7.95720 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 67208 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Goold's Cross. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Railway Cottages, Gooldscross, Peter Reynolds postcard335 · Tipperary Studies; postcard creators B & J Moore
- Goold’s Cross Railway Station, record22205205 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Goolds Cross: railway photographic survey and captions · Eiretrains
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.