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Kennedy Pier

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Kennedy Pier
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T-plan pier, built c. 1840. Limestone battered walls with cast-iron railings. Jetties to east and west elevations having limestone walls with cobbled surface. Concrete piers to south elevation.
Solidly constructed pier indicative of the skill of nineteenth-century builders and engineers. It was on Kennedy Pier, then Admiralty Pier, that the survivors of the sinking of RMS Lusitania disembarked from a flotilla of rescue boats.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 20827346

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Arco Ardon from Dordrecht, Netherlands, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0
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  • Guliolopez, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • derek menzies, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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