Glandore Pier

Pier, built 1828, on an L-shaped plan with coursed rubble limestone battered walls having mass concrete-repaired coping supporting lichen-covered mooring posts. Set extending into Glandore Harbour.

A pier designed by James Donnell (d. 1831), Harbour Engineer to the Commissioners of Irish Fisheries (appointed 1825), representing an integral component of the early nineteenth-century built heritage of County Cork. NOTE: The pier was instigated by Christopher Allen (d. 1866) of Stone Hall who 'solicited the co-operation of the Board [of Works]'. The estimate by Donnell amounted to £679 3s. 6d. of which £452 15s. 8d. 'was granted out of the fund accruing under the Act of the 5th Geo. IV c.64 [The Fisheries Act 1824]' with Allen contributing £226 7s. 10d. 'to make up the necessary amount'. James Redmond Barry (d. 1879) of Glandore House, Inspector-General of Irish Fisheries, consented to the pier being built by day labourers, rather than a sub-contractor, and their work was praised (1829) by Donnell as 'superior to the specification...a specimen of economical and substantial workmanship proper to be referred to as a guide for the execution of other fishery works' (First Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry into The State of the Irish Fisheries 1836, 117). Later works completed (1849) at a cost of £220 saw the pier repaired following a series of storms (National Archives of Ireland OPW/8/155/3; OPW/8/155/5).