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Quay or wharf in Clifden

Quay/wharf
Quay or wharf in Clifden
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Quay or wharf in Clifden offers the boating holiday with the strongest surprise: go below for a nap and wake up owning a bungalow on a wet field. The tide will bring your yacht back later.

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L-shaped battered quay wall, built 1822-31, running north-east to south-west and turning to run north-south at south end. Walls of roughly dressed limestone blocks, with coping and steps of limestone, with some concrete repairs and having cast-iron railings to south-eastern elevation, stone steps at south end of main section. Painted granite bollards set back from quay, and some modern concrete bollards. Rounded conical navigation markers indicate navigable channel at high tide.
This quay, designed by Alexander Nimmo, was started as a relief work in 1822 on the insistence of J D'Arcy, but not completed until 1831. Formerly used for trade, this intact quayside is now used by pleasure craft. It is a striking harbour due to its shallowness and therefore the visual difference between high and low tide is dramatic.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30325017

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Mac McCarron, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Newbert12, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; Jonathan Wilkins, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Drow69, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; Keith Salvesen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Ian Capper, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; 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; Nigel Thompson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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