Selected: CO. WATERFORD, DUNMORE EAST, HARBOUR & LIGHTHOUSE
| Name: | NIMMO, ALEXANDER [1]# |
| Building: | CO. WATERFORD, DUNMORE EAST, HARBOUR & LIGHTHOUSE |
| Date: | 1814p-1821p |
| Nature: | Built under direction of AN. Lighthouse in form of fluted Doric column. |
| Refs: | Sean de Courcy, 'Alexander Nimmo, Engineer: some tentative notes', typescript of paper given to National Library of Ireland Society, November 1981, gives date of first estimate as 1814 and says that work was almost finished in 1821; Bill Long, Bright Light, White Water (1993), 71; R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998), 235-6(illus.)(who give later date of 1823-25) |