Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. ANTRIM, BALLYCASTLE, PIER

Name: STEERS, THOMAS *
Building: CO. ANTRIM, BALLYCASTLE, PIER
Date: 1738
Nature: New pier, at least 200 ft long and 40 ft wide, for Hugh Boyd. Constructed of frame of wooden piles held together with iron straps, filled with rubble. Failed fairly rapidly because worms ate wood..
Refs: W.A. McCutcheon, The Canals of the North of Ireland (1965), 20; A.W. Skempton et al., A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland I (2002), 653