Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CARLISLE BRIDGE (OLD)
Name: | UNKNOWN ARCHITECT |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CARLISLE BRIDGE (OLD) |
Date: | 1789-1791 |
Nature: | 'The building of the new bridge, from the Batchelor's-walk to Aston's-quay is now going forward in earnest.the foundation of the abutments are digging' &c., Oct 1789. Caisson for 2nd abutment laid, Oct 1790. First stone laid by John Claudius Bresford, 5 Mar 1891. |
Refs: |
Faulkner's Dublin Journal, 10-13 Oct 1789; 24-26 Aug 1790; 9-12 Oct 1790;26-28 May 1791; 21-23 Jun 1791; Irish Times, 14 Jun 1871. |
Name: | GANDON, JAMES |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CARLISLE BRIDGE (OLD) |
Date: | 1791-1794 |
Nature: | New bridge, for Commissioners of the Revenue. FS laid 1791. Opened to traffic 1794. Keystones carved by Edward Smyth. |
Refs: | H.G. Leask, 'Some less known works of Edward Smyth, sculptor', JRSAI 80 (1950), 76); see also E. McParland, James Gandon: Vitruvius Hibernicus (1985), refs. as in index; Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 694. |
Name: | DARLEY, FREDERICK [1]* |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CARLISLE BRIDGE (OLD) |
Date: | 1791-94 |
Nature: | FD and Thomas Baker contractors for stonework. |
Refs: | E. McParland, James Gandon (1981), 194n16 |
Name: | SMYTH, EDWARD * |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CARLISLE BRIDGE (OLD) |
Date: | 1794a |
Nature: | Sculpted keystones representing Anna Liffey and Atlantic Ocean. (Removed to 30-32 Sir John Rogerson's Quay when bridge was reconstructed.) |
Refs: |
T.J. Mulvany, The Life of James Gandon, Esq.(1846), 156; H.G. Leask, 'Some less known works of Edward Smyth, sculptor', JRSAI 80 (1950), 76(illus.); Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 459,694.. |
Name: | PAPWORTH, GEORGE |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CARLISLE BRIDGE (OLD) |
Date: | 1838 |
Nature: | Proposed improvement by adding 12 ft. footways on each side. |
Refs: | Sketch and model exh. RHA 1838, nos. 203,423; 1841, no. 423; 1847, no. 482 |
Name: | SEMPLE, JOHN [3] |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CARLISLE BRIDGE (OLD) |
Date: | 1838ca |
Nature: | Proposed widening. |
Refs: | NA/SPO CSORP 1839/64-485 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44) |
Name: | SLOANE, JOHN SWAN |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CARLISLE BRIDGE (OLD) |
Date: | 1859 |
Nature: | Proposal for widening same; 'elaborately finished drawings' of scheme exh. in Great Industrial Exhibition, 1853. |
Refs: | DB 1, 1 Feb 1859, 19 |
Name: | FARRELL, ISAAC |
Building: | CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CARLISLE BRIDGE (OLD) |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Designed by 'J. Farrell'. Is this Isaac? |
Refs: | B 8, 17 Aug 1850, 392 |