Galway Harbour Act, 1935

Description of works.

37.—The works will be wholly situate in the Parish of St. Nicholas and in the extra-parochial place of the bed and foreshore of Galway Bay adjoining the said Parish of St. Nicholas in the Urban District of Galway in the County of Galway and are:—

WORK No. 1.—The deepening of the approach channel to and the removal of the rock barrier obstructing the entrance to the Deep Dock (Dun Aengus Dock) to a depth of 12 feet below Ordnance datum, and works incidental thereto, measuring 5 furlongs 9 chains 30 links (3,914 feet) in length or thereabouts situate in the Parish of St. Nicholas and in the extra-parochial place of the bed and foreshore of Galway Bay adjoining the said Parish of St. Nicholas and wholly in the Urban District of Galway in the County of Galway commencing as regards its centre line at the South Eastern side of the entrance gates of the Deep Dock (Dun Aengus Dock) and terminating at a point 3,914 feet or thereabouts measured in a South Easterly direction therefrom with a breadth of 65 feet or thereabouts at the said entrance gates of the said Deep Dock (Dun Aengus Dock) with a bottom breadth of 600 feet or thereabouts at the South Eastern end of Work No. 2 and with a bottom breadth of 300 feet or thereabouts at a point 750 feet in a South Easterly direction from the South Eastern end of Work No. 2 and seawards of the said point.

WORK No. 2.—The construction of a pier and works incidental thereto wholly situate in the Parish of St. Nicholas in the Urban District of Galway in the County of Galway 50 feet in breadth for a length of 300 feet at its North Western end and 100 feet in breadth for a length of 50 feet at its South Eastern end and commencing at a point at the centre of the South Eastern Pier head of the Deep Dock (Dun Aengus Dock) and terminating 350 feet or thereabouts in a South Easterly direction from the said point.

WORK No. 3.—The completion of the existing unfinished Deep Dock (Dun Aengus Dock) containing 1 acre 1 rood 31 1/2 perches statute measure or thereabouts and the widening of entrance of Deep Dock (Dun Aengus Dock) and the provision of new entrance gates and works incidental thereto to provide a depth of water of 12 feet below Ordnance datum and wholly situate in the Parish of St. Nicholas in the Urban District of Galway in the County of Galway commencing as regards its centre line at a point 410 feet or thereabouts North West of the South Eastern side of the entrance gates of the Deep Dock (Dun Aengus Dock) and terminating at the North Western end of Work No. 1 and bounded by the existing dock walls and their prolongations at the Western corner of the said Dock.

WORK No. 4.—The linking together of the Commercial Dock and the Deep Dock (Dun Aengus Dock) and the deepening of part of the Commercial Dock so as to obtain an area of 3 acres 2 roods 25 perches statute measure or thereabouts of a depth of 12 feet below Ordnance datum, bounded on the North Western side by the existing Quay as widened to a point measured 450 feet in a North Easterly direction from the Western corner of the said Commercial Dock, and bounded on its North Eastern side by a line drawn parallel to the North Eastern side of the Commercial Dock from the said point to a point on the existing South Eastern Quay of the said Commercial Dock at which point it returns in a South Westerly direction until it meets a prolongation of the line of the existing North Eastern Quay of the Deep Dock (Dun Aengus Dock) from which point it follows the line of the said prolongation to the North corner of the said Deep Dock (Dun Aengus Dock) and bounded on its South Eastern side by a line drawn from the Northern corner of the Deep Dock (Dun Aengus Dock) parallel to the North Western side of the Commercial Dock until it meets the South Western side of the said Dock, and bounded on its South Western side by the existing Quay as widened, and the widening out of part of the North Western Quay of the Commercial Dock for a length of 450 feet measured in a North Easterly direction from the Western corner of the said Dock and the widening out of part of the South Western Quay of the said Dock for a length of 400 feet in a South Easterly direction from the said Western corner of the said Dock and works incidental thereto wholly situate in the Parish of St. Nicholas in the Urban District of Galway in the County of Galway.

WORK No. 5.—The closing of the Commercial Dock entrance and works incidental thereto wholly situate in the Parish of St. Nicholas in the Urban District of Galway in the County of Galway and forming a road access from the South Western Quay of the Deep Dock (Dun Aengus Dock) to the South Western Quay of the Commercial Dock bounded on its North Western side by a line drawn across the South Eastern end of the Commercial Dock and on its North Eastern and South Western sides by the walls of the existing dock entrance and on its South Eastern side by a line parallel to the South Eastern end of the Commercial Dock and 60 feet South East of it.