Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. GALWAY, PORTUMNA, BRIDGE

Name: COX, LEMUEL #
Building: CO. GALWAY, PORTUMNA, BRIDGE
Date: 1796
Nature: 12-arch timber bridge over River Shannon.
Refs: de Latocnaye, Rambles through Ireland (1799), ?; J. Binns, Miseries & Beauties of Ireland II, 79; S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 469.

Name: NIMMO, ALEXANDER [1]#
Building: CO. GALWAY, PORTUMNA, BRIDGE
Date: 1818
Nature: 'The wooden bridge…built in 1796, by Mr Cox, is 766 feet in length, 391 feet from the Galway shore to the island in the river, and 375 feet thence to the Tipperary shore. The Galway part was destroyed by a great flood in 1814, but was rebuilt and the whole repaired in 1818 , under the supervision of the late Mr. Alex. Nimmo.'
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 469

Name: COCKBURN, GILBERT [1] *
Building: CO. GALWAY, PORTUMNA, BRIDGE
Date: 1830-33a?
Nature: GC contractor
Refs: DB 4, 15 Feb 1862, 43

Name: GRANTHAM, JOHN [1]#
Building: CO. GALWAY, PORTUMNA, BRIDGE
Date: 1830-33ca?
Nature: Proposed(?) rebuilding with arches of wider span to accommodate flood water.
Refs: Min. Proc. Inst. CE 108 (1891-2), 399

Name: MALLET, ROBERT [2]
Building: CO. GALWAY, PORTUMNA, BRIDGE
Date: 1836ca
Nature: J. & R. Mallet secure contract for swivel bridge, for Shannon Commissioners.
Refs: Min.Proc.Inst.CE 68 (1881-82), 298

Name: RHODES, THOMAS #
Building: CO. GALWAY, PORTUMNA, BRIDGE
Date: 1837-1842
Nature: TR submits plan for new bridge, including 40 ft swivel bridge, to Board of Works by 1837. Girders by J. & R. Mallet, Dublin.
Refs: Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 469; Thomas Rhodes, 'Description of a bridge across the river Shannon at Portumna', Min.Proc.Inst.CE 3 (1844), 99-101 (summarized in Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 7 (Jun 1844), 245-6).

Name: PAPWORTH, GEORGE
Building: CO. GALWAY, PORTUMNA, BRIDGE
Date: 1838
Nature: Design for proposed swivel bridge exh. RHA
Refs: RHA 1838, no. 196