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Oldhead Quay

Pier/jetty
Oldhead Quay
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What is recorded here

Oldhead Quay was completed in 1829 but only declared 'perfect' in 1830. A full year between finished and satisfactory: somebody's father must have been inspecting it.

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Pier, begun 1822; unfinished 1825; completed 1829; "perfect" 1830, on a cranked L-shaped plan with sandstone ashlar battered walls having benchmark-inscribed cut-limestone coping supporting tooled cut-limestone mooring posts. Set extending into Clew Bay.
A pier erected to a design by Alexander Nimmo (1783-1832), Engineer to the Western District (appointed 1822; replaced 1831), and with financial support from Howe Peter Browne (1788-1845), second Marquess of Sligo (Wilkins 2009, 353), representing an important component of the early nineteenth-century built heritage of the environs of Louisburgh: meanwhile, a discreet benchmark remains of additional interest for the connections with cartography and the preparations of maps by the Ordnance Survey (established 1824).

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 31308608

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Pictures: Oliver Dixon, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Keith Salvesen, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Egbert Polski, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Jonathan Wilkins, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; National Library of Ireland on The Commons, Wikimedia Commons · No restrictions; Mick Garratt, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Eric Jones, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; EamonnPKeane at English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Colin Park, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; A.-K. D., Wikimedia Commons · CC0

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