Survey Data
Reg No
31309402
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Pier/jetty
In Use As
Pier/jetty
Date
1820 - 1830
Coordinates
61954, 274823
Date Recorded
25/06/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Pier, designed 1823; under construction 1824; "finished" 1827; extant 1838, with irregular coursed cut-limestone battered walls having tooled cut-limestone coping. Set at entrance to Inishturk Harbour.
Appraisal
A pier erected for Richard Bingham (1764-1839), second Earl of Lucan, to a design by Alexander Nimmo (1783-1832), Engineer to the Western District (appointed 1822; replaced 1831), representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century maritime civil engineering heritage of Inishturk.