Selected: CO. KILKENNY, THOMASTOWN, RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER RIVER NORE
Name: | MALLET, ROBERT [2] |
Building: | CO. KILKENNY, THOMASTOWN, RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER RIVER NORE |
Date: | 1846-1850 |
Nature: | Timber viaduct for Waterford & Kilkenny Railway Co.; 'though nominally prepared by Captain Moorsom, was re-designed by Mallet, as failure might have resulted from following the original drawings'. (Cox). Contractors for foundations & masonry nearly to springing of cross arches): Hammond & Murray. Contractor for woodwork and maintenance of same: Robert Mallet. . |
Refs: | Min.Proc.Inst.CE 11 (1851-52), 426-434; 22 (1862-63), 325-326; 68 (1881-82), 300; timberwork illus. in E.Lomax & T. Gunyon, eds., Nicholson's Dictionary of the Science and Practice of Architecture (n.d.), Pl. ?; R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998), 118-119(illus.) |
Name: | MOORSOM, WILLIAM SCARTH (CAPT.) # |
Building: | CO. KILKENNY, THOMASTOWN, RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER RIVER NORE |
Date: | 1846-1850 |
Nature: | Timber viaduct for Waterford & Kilkenny Railway Co.. Contractors for foundations & masonry nearly to springing of cross arches): Hammond & Murray. Contractor for woodwork and maintenance of same: Robert Mallet. |
Refs: | Model exh. at Conversazione of Inst.CE, 22 May 1849 (Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 12 (Jun 1849), 185; W.S. Moorsom, 'Description of the viaduct erected over the River Nore, near Thomastown, in the County of Kilkenny, to carry the Waterford and Kilmenny Railway', Min.Proc.Inst.CE 11 (1851-52), 426-434; timberwork illus. in E.Lomax & T. Gunyon, eds., Nicholson's Dictionary of the Science and Practice of Architecture (n.d.), Pl. ? |
Name: | COURTNEY, STEPHENS & BAILEY * |
Building: | CO. KILKENNY, THOMASTOWN, RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER RIVER NORE |
Date: | 1876-77 |
Nature: | For Waterford & Kilkenny Railway. |
Refs: | Min.Proc.Inst.CE 68 (1881-82), 300; R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998), 118 |
Name: | GALWEY, CHARLES RICHARD |
Building: | CO. KILKENNY, THOMASTOWN, RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER RIVER NORE |
Date: | 1876-77 |
Nature: | Designed iron lattice girder to replace timber trusses. Constructed by Courtenay, Stephens & Bailey |
Refs: | Min.Proc.Inst.CE 68 (1881-82), 300; W.A. McCutcheon, Railway History in Pictures: Ireland(1969), II, 37; R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998), 118-119(illus.) |