Survey Data

Reg No

31208002


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Technical


Original Use

Quay/wharf


In Use As

Quay/wharf


Date

1845 - 1850


Coordinates

98023, 293837


Date Recorded

25/11/2010


Date Updated

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Description

Quay, rebuilt 1849, with limestone ashlar battered wall having lichen-covered tooled cut-limestone coping.

Appraisal

A lengthy quay front reconstructed under the Fisheries (Ireland) Act, 1846, and with the financial assistance of a grant (1846) from the Board of Public Works (established 1831), representing an important component of the nineteenth-century maritime civil engineering heritage of County Mayo.