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Coney Island Pier is a masonry structure forming part of Killough Harbour, a working harbour developed during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in County Down, Northern Ireland. The pier was constructed on bedrock of Early Carboniferous sedimentary rocks, which provided a stable foundation for the harbour infrastructure. The site occupies a strategically important position at grid reference J542843, commanding the approach to Killough's sheltered anchorage on the Irish Sea coast.
The pier represents the practical maritime engineering of the post-medieval period, when improved harbour facilities became essential to local fishing and trade. Its masonry construction reflects the substantial investment required to protect vessels from the exposed coastal conditions of the Irish Sea. The Paleozoic geology beneath the pier—formed hundreds of millions of years before human activity—shaped both the harbour's natural advantages and the methods required to construct it.
Coney Island Pier is protected as a historic monument by the Historic Environment Division under reference number 16070, recognising its significance as part of the wider harbour complex. As an integral element of Killough's eighteenth and nineteenth-century maritime infrastructure, the pier survives as evidence of the harbour's continued importance to local communities and regional commerce during this formative period of its development.
Coney island pier. coney island pier, part of killough harbour is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 16070. View the official record →
Coney Island Pier is a masonry structure forming part of Killough Harbour, a working harbour developed during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 16070.
Coney island pier. coney island pier, part of killough harbour dates from the c18th/c19th period, and is classified as a harbour. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Coney island pier. coney island pier, part of killough harbour is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Ni. The official designation reference is 16070.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Killough harbour. harbour and rope walk (0.2 km), Margaret's castle. tower-house (1.9 km), Newark & horn castle, adrglass castle. tower-house, merchants stores & c18th castle (2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Coney island pier. coney island pier, part of killough harbour's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Coney island pier. coney island pier, part of killough harbour stands on Paleozoic sedimentary rocks, bedrock that formed in the Early Carboniferous. The rock here is sedimentary rocks.