What is recorded here

Pier, designed 1829, on a cranked L-shaped plan with coursed rubble "Old Red Sandstone" battered walls having lichen-spotted coping supporting lichen-covered cut-"Old Red Sandstone" mooring posts. Set extending into King's Bay.

A pier erected 'at an expense granted by the late Fishery Board [fl. 1819-30] and the remainder defrayed by [Arthur Chichester (1797-1837), first Baron Templemore]' (Samuel Lewis 1837 I, 78-9) representing an important component of the early nineteenth-century built heritage of south County Wexford with the objective of the pier being to support 'trade [consisting] principally in the importation of coal and culm from South wales, and slates from Bangor, and the exportation to Waterford of corn, pigs, butter, eggs, honey, and poultry' (ibid., 78-9).

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