Survey Data

Reg No

31308725


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Architectural, Technical


Original Use

Pier/jetty


Date

1845 - 1850


Coordinates

96798, 283723


Date Recorded

20/12/2010


Date Updated

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Description

Pier, built 1846[?]; extant 1865, with coursed or snecked rock faced limestone battered walls having lichen-covered rock faced cut-limestone coping. Now disused. Set extending into Westport Bay.

Appraisal

A pier erected with financial support from the Commissioners of Public Works (established 1831) representing an integral component of the nineteenth-century maritime civil engineering heritage of the outskirts of Westport.