WORK is to begin on restoring the north pier at Annalong Harbour in Co Down.
Reconstruction of the pier, which dates back to the 1840s, is expected to start this week at an estimated cost of around £150,000.
It was reported that work to restore the grade B2 listed structure, which has fallen into a poor state of repair, will take up to eight weeks to complete.
DUP councillor Glyn Hanna told the BBC: "The north pier, which had problems with its structural integrity, has started to collapse to a certain extent.
"Some of the Mourne granite stones have fallen into the sea, which requires immediate attention."
He added that the work would be carried out with "all of the traditional materials that were used 150 years ago".
"The men who built it 150 or 160 years ago did some job that it has lasted this amount of time," he said.
"I'm hopeful and pretty sure that the work done this time will last another hundred years."
