Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, DONAGHADEE, HARBOUR

Name: RENNIE, JOHN [2] (SIR) #
Building: CO. DOWN, DONAGHADEE, HARBOUR
Date: 1820-1836
Nature: New harbour designed by John Rennie[1]; construction supervised by John Rennie[2]. Resident engineer: D. Logan.
Refs: Documentation 1820-1833,1837,1841-43, in NA OPW8/110/1,3,4,6,10; Pigot and Co.'s City of Dublin and Hibernian Provincial Directory (1824), 271; R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998), 149-150.

Name: RENNIE, JOHN [1]#
Building: CO. DOWN, DONAGHADEE, HARBOUR
Date: 1820-1836
Nature: New harbour and lighthouse designed by JR; construction supervised by John Rennie[2].
Refs: Documentation 1820-1833,1837,1841-43, in NA OPW8/110/1,3,4,6,10; Min.Proc.Inst.CE 7 (1848), 382-3; John S. Sloane, 'A History of the lighthouses of Ireland…III', IB 21, 15 Jun 1880, 167; Hugh Dixon, Kenneth Kenmuir , Jill Kennett, Historic Buildings…in Donaghadee and Portpatrick (UAHS, 1977), 21 (no. 20); jR.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998), 149-150

Name: LOGAN, DAVID #
Building: CO. DOWN, DONAGHADEE, HARBOUR
Date: 1830s
Nature: DL resident engineer in charge of construction of new harbour designed by John Rennie [1}.
Refs: Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008), 659.

Name: SLOANE, JOHN SWAN
Building: CO. DOWN, DONAGHADEE, HARBOUR
Date: 1864
Nature: Lighthouse keeper's house. Contractor: Nimick, Holywood. Cost (with walling and gates, £843,8s,4s.
Refs: DB 5, 1 Aug 1863, 133; John S. Sloane, 'A History of the lighthouses of Ireland…III', IB 21, 15 Jun 1880, 167.