Survey Data
Reg No
30407705
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Quay/wharf
In Use As
Quay/wharf
Date
1860 - 1900
Coordinates
84597, 231494
Date Recorded
03/09/2008
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding L-plan quay, built c.1880, extending into Cuan Chill Chiaráin [Kilkieran Bay] with associated buildings to north-west, two slipways to north and recent extension to quay to its north-east terminus. Dressed rusticated granite block construction, with similar coping stones, built to courses with battered both north-west and south-east elevations and irregular coursed rubblework granite parapets. Cobbled surfaces to slipways with smaller slipway having concrete repairs. Dressed granite steps and inset metal ladders to north-west elevation, concrete surface to quay with granite mooring posts, steel rings and narrow gauge rails. Two-bay two-storey former storehouse (now office) to north-west of quay with pitched recent metal sheet roof, rubble stone walls, attached at south gable to single-storey six-bay office (formerly two dwellings), with recent metal sheet roof and rendered chimneystack and rendered walls.
Appraisal
This extensive quayside is a striking landmark of the Kilkieran landscape and was built to facilitate the transport of material related to the kelp industry - in particular loading ships bound for Scotland in the middle to late nineteenth Century. A kelp factory is still in operation adjacent to the quay.