Quay or wharf in Townparks, County Offaly

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What is recorded here

Stone built quay, constructed c.1800, running under Molesworth Bridge, along edge of canal. Retaining wall runs along upper part of canal. Quay downstream to west has been renovated c.2000.

This quay forms an interesting group of related canal structures with the canal store and Molesworth Bridge. The structure is an integral part of the canal system which came to Daingean, or Philipstown as it was formerly known, in 1796. The survival of such structures is a reminder of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century advances in inland water navigation.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 14808024

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Photo credits

Royalcanalrunner, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Dylan Moore, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Maker not stated on source page, monumentalireland.ie
Daingean GAA / Facebook, credited by Offaly Independent; individual photographer not named, www.offalyindependent.ie
Maker not stated on source page, commons.wikimedia.org
Maker not stated on source page, extra.ie
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