Conservation - Fort Eliza

Tender description

Waterways Ireland is one of the six North/South Implementation Bodies established under the British Irish Agreement in 1999. Waterways Ireland manages, maintains, develops and promotes over 1,000km inland navigable waterways principally for recreational purposes. The waterways under the remit of the body are the Shannon Navigation, Barrow Navigation, the Erne System, the Grand Canal, the Lower Bann, the Royal Canal and the Shannon-Erne Waterway. Our navigations have numerous examples of waterway related industrial heritage. At Banagher, Co. Offaly, WI has an excellent example of a Napoleonic Fortification under their ownership: Fort Eliza, where Waterways Ireland wish to commission the following body of work: Urgent works to repair Napoleonic battery including brick vaulting, stone pointing, lintels, jambs to magazine following treatment and removal of encroaching vegetation including all temporary works, clearance and disposal, work platforms and propping. Miscellaneous conservation repairs to guard house, entrance, terreplein and flanking walls. Soft capping of imported local turf to flaunched roof and wall heads. The works are to be undertaken as described in the enclosed tender drawings, schedule and specifications prepared by the conservation architects and engineers.