Clones railway station (original) (raw)

Clones railway station was on the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway in Ireland. The Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway opened the station on 26 June 1858. On 11 February 1922 at the station a group of Irish Republican Army volunteers attempted to ambush a party of Ulster Special Constabulary policemen travelling on a train through Clones. The volunteers entered a carriage of a train and ordered the Specials to put their hand up. IRA. Commandant Matthew Fitzpatrick was shot and in the ensuing fight, 4 Specials lost their lives. It closed on 1 October 1957.