Survey Data
Reg No
15503009
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Cobbles/flags/paving/kerbing
In Use As
Cobbles/flags/paving/kerbing
Date
1842 - 1882
Coordinates
305056, 121804
Date Recorded
16/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Section of granite flagged paving, extant 1882.
Appraisal
A section of paving making a pleasing, if largely inconspicuous visual statement in Crescent Quay. NOTE: Samuel Lewis (1837) gives an account of the conditions of the paving and streets of Wexford in the early nineteenth century by remarking that 'the streets are narrow, partially and indifferently paved, and not lighted; two attempts, made in 1830 and 1833, to bring the town within the provisions of the act of the 9th of George IV [Lighting etc. of Cities etc. (Ireland) Act 1828] for paving, lighting, and cleansing towns, failed; the proposal being each time rejected by a majority of a public meeting convened for its consideration' (Lewis 1837 II, 708).