{"id":1103,"date":"2023-07-25T21:55:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T20:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=1103"},"modified":"2023-08-14T14:25:27","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T13:25:27","slug":"greenore-architectural-print-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2023\/07\/25\/greenore-architectural-print-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenore Architectural Print Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Greenore, Co. Louth, is something of an architectural anomaly in Ireland. If you have never visited the town, I&#8217;d suggest you do. Not only because it is the only discrete railway town in Ireland,* but because the architecture is straight out of northern England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason for this is that the town was built as a company town by the Dundalk Newry &amp; Greenore Railway (DN&amp;GR) which was financed by the London &amp; North Western Railway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recognition of this architectural heritage, there is currently an exhibition in the town which celebrates this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/createlouth.ie\/event\/greetings-from-greenore-architectural-print-exhibition\/\">The exhibition is in the Assembly Rooms on the first floor of the former Greenore Co-operative Society Building on Euston Street, Greenore and runs until 20th August 2023.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Whilst there are concentrations of railway company provided housing in Ireland, including at Rosslare, Co. Wexford (co-incidentally, previously known as Greenore) and Inchicore in Dublin, both areas have expanded beyond the original development and can no longer be architecturally identified as a discrete development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenore, Co. Louth, is something of an architectural anomaly in Ireland. If you have never visited the town, I&#8217;d suggest you do. Not only because it is the only discrete railway town in Ireland,* but because the architecture is straight out of northern England. The reason for this is that the town was built as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}