What is recorded here
Pier or jetty in Mace has drains set into its surface, a magnificently cheeky thing to put beside the Atlantic. An entire ocean turns up in a temper and gets shown a little grille. “You’ll have to go out the way everyone else does.”
Pier, built c.1880, having granite block walls, partly rebuilt in concrete, with concrete steps to north elevation. South elevation has shallow batter and is of rougher mortared stone construction. Mortared stone surface having drains with recent iron grill covers. Cast-iron mooring post and iron rings. Recent galvanised steel railings and ladder to south elevation. Conical rubble stone channel marker cairn adjacent to east end of pier.
This small and functional pier reflects the importance of maritime activity to this area, while the design with drains on the pier surface and its battered southern elevation hint at the ferocity of winter storms this structure needs to endure.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30407602
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