Survey Data
Reg No
31306708
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Technical
Original Use
Pier/jetty
In Use As
Pier/jetty
Date
1840 - 1850
Coordinates
92343, 295133
Date Recorded
17/11/2010
Date Updated
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Description
Pier, designed 1845[?]; built 1847[?]; extant 1849, with drag edged tooled limestone ashlar battered walls having rock faced cut-limestone coping centred on tooled cut-limestone "mushroom" mooring posts. Set extending into Rockfleet Bay.
Appraisal
A pier erected by the Commissioners of Public Works (established 1831) representing an integral component of the mid nineteenth-century maritime civil engineering heritage of County Mayo (Reports from Commissioners 1847-8 XXXVII, 144-5).