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Pier or jetty in Ballinaboy

Pier/jetty
Pier or jetty in Ballinaboy
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Pier or jetty in Ballinaboy has a little harbour tucked inside an already sheltered cove. That’s an Irish mammy packing a cardigan for a boat. “I know you’re built for the sea. That doesn’t mean you have to be out in it.”

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Freestanding trapezoidal-plan limestone quay, built c.1850, having battered rubble walls and additional rubble slipway to south, creating small harbour within sheltered cove. Ruinous rubble-stone copings and paving to pier. Slipway has slightly battered walls with rubble copings and paving and extending into bay with ruinous boathouse/shelter to north having rubble walls.
This quay is a functional but striking feature of the area and utilises a natural cove with deeper water available to the east. It may have been built by the owners of Ballinaboy House. The pier would have provided ample shelter and mooring for small scale boats that would have been used for fishing and leisure activities.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30403514

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Newbert12, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Jonathan Wilkins, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Mac McCarron, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Drow69, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Maker named on the Wikimedia Commons picture page · Public domain; Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Keith Salvesen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Ian Capper, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Nigel Thompson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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