Selected: CO. WICKLOW, POULAPHOUCA, BRIDGE



Name: NIMMO, ALEXANDER [1]#
Building: CO. WICKLOW, POULAPHOUCA, BRIDGE
Date: 1823
Nature: Gothic arched single-span bridge over River Liffey. Contractors: Bergin & Woods.
Refs: Papers re dispute over awarding of contract, Feb 1818-Jun 1822, in NA CSO/RP/1822/2003; Dublin Penny Journal, 8 Mar 1834, 281(illus.);  Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 152;  Douglas Scott Richardson, Gothic Revival Architecture in Ireland (1983), 313;  R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998), 97-99; see also Transactions of the Kildare Archaeological Society 6;  Noel P. Wilkins, Alexander Nimmo, Master Engineer, 1783-1832: public works and civil surveys (Irish Academic Press, 2009), 215,217-224, Pls. 8,9.