Carnsore Pier — CARNA

The saved account records: Pier, dated 1884-5, on a rectangular plan with mass concrete battered walls on submerged concrete block foundations having lichen-spotted cut-granite rounded coping supporting cast-iron mooring loops.

The saved account records: Set extending into Saint George's Channel.

The saved wording does not establish one complete story of attack, rebuilding, abandonment, damage or later change. No single cause is claimed without evidence.

The official record fixes the place and calls it pier/jetty. It does not provide a full list of finds or a current condition report, so visible and buried remains are not guessed.

Carnsore Pier — CARNA matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: A pier erected by the Yorkshire-born contractor Thomas Ingham Dixon (----) of Donnybrook to designs by Robert Manning (1816-97), Chief Engineer to the Board of Public Works (appointed 1874; retired 1891; NA OPW 1884 8/61), representing an important component of the late nineteenth-century built heritage of south County Wexford with the engineering or technical dexterity of the composition confirmed by the pioneering mass concrete construction which, unlike the contemporary stone-faced Cheekpoint Pier (1884-6) by Manning and Dixon in neighbouring County Waterford (see 22901008), '[made] no effort to conceal the… This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.