Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WICKLOW, AVOCA, BRIDGE OVER AVOCA RIVER

Name: BRETT, HENRY
Building: CO. WICKLOW, AVOCA, BRIDGE OVER AVOCA RIVER
Date: 1869
Nature: New bridge consisting of 3 semi-elliptical arches of 45 ft each. Built of hammered Aughrim granite. Cost: £3000. (Replaced earlier bridge destroyed in floods of 1867.)
Refs: IB 9, 1 Dec 1867, 316; 11, 1 Jun,1 Sep 1869, 135,206; Brendan O'Donoghue, The Irish County Surveyors 1834-1944 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), 112