Survey Data
Reg No
15603156
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Quay/wharf
Date
1815 - 1825
Coordinates
297467, 139822
Date Recorded
13/06/2005
Date Updated
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Description
Quay, built 1820, with coursed or snecked limestone battered wall having lichen-spotted cut-granite coping.
Appraisal
A quay 'lately constructed at an expense defrayed partly by the Earl of Portsmouth's estate and partly by subscription' representing an important component of the early nineteenth-century built heritage of Enniscorthy with the project intended to improve 'trade principally consisting [of] the exportation of agricultural produce and the importation of coal, timber, slates, iron, salt, and various other commodities, for which [the] river navigation to the port of Wexford [is] very favourable' (Lewis 1837 I, 603; cf. 15603157).