Survey Data
Reg No
15619016
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Quay/wharf
In Use As
Quay/wharf
Date
1740 - 1745
Coordinates
280563, 105156
Date Recorded
06/09/2007
Date Updated
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Description
Quay, built 1741, including (west): Pier on a rectangular plan with part repointed lichen-spotted battered walls having lichen-spotted coping; (east): Pier on an L-shaped plan with part repointed battered walls having lichen-spotted coping. Repaired, 1800; 1849. Repaired, 1990. Set extending into Fethard Bay.
Appraisal
A quay erected by Nicholas Loftus (c.1687-1763) for the Commissioners of Customs (Irish 1741-2) representing an important component of the built heritage of south County Wexford: meanwhile, aspects of the composition illustrate the minor repairs made to the quay (1800) following the 1798 Insurrection and later (1849) under the direction of Barry Duncan Gibbons (c.1798-1862), Engineer for Piers and Harbours with the Board of Public Works (appointed 1846). NOTE: A plaque (1998) commemorates the bicentenary of the only maritime episode in the 1798 Insurrection when '[the] harbour the malt store and thirteen fishing boats were bombarded and extensively damaged by the British Naval Gunboats "Louisa" and "Packenham"'.