Survey Data
Reg No
15618017
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Pier/jetty
In Use As
Pier/jetty
Date
1845 - 1855
Coordinates
272661, 108277
Date Recorded
04/09/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Pier, designed 1847; built 1851, on an L-shaped plan with coursed or snecked rock faced "Old Red Sandstone" battered walls having lichen-spotted rock faced cut-"Old Red Sandstone" coping supporting mooring posts. Set extending into Waterford Harbour.
Appraisal
A pier erected to a design by Barry Duncan Gibbons (c.1798-1862), Engineer for Piers and Harbours with the Board of Public Works (appointed 1846), representing an important component of the mid nineteenth-century built heritage of south County Wexford.