Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, ST JOHN'S BRIDGE

Name: VALLANCEY, CHARLES
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, ST JOHN'S BRIDGE
Date: 1763
Nature: CV erects temporary bridges to replace John's Bridge and Green's Bridge after they were broken down byh floods of 1763.
Refs: Monica Nevin, 'General Charles Vallancey 1725-1812', JRSAI 23 (1993), 23

Name: SMITH, GEORGE [1]
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, ST JOHN'S BRIDGE
Date: 1763p
Nature: New 3-arched bridge over River Nore, replacing one swept away by floods of 1763. Cost of John's Bridge and Greene's Bridge: £5,407. (Demolished 1910)
Refs: William Tighe, Statistical Observations relative to the County of Kilkenny (1802), 563; S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 110; Peter Smithwick, 'Georgian Kilkenny', BIGS 6, no. 4 (Oct-Dec 1963), 93

Name: COLLES, WILLIAM [1]*
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, ST JOHN'S BRIDGE
Date: 1767
Nature: Rebuilt by WC after its destruction in flood of 1763.
Refs: Note by J.G. Robertson in scrapbook in NLI, cited by Knight of Glin in unpublished thesis on Irish Palladianism;  entry on Colles by C.J. Woods in Dictionary of Irish Biography, ed. by James McGuire and James Quinn, 9 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 2009), II, 666. 

Name: BURTCHAELL, PETER
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, ST JOHN'S BRIDGE
Date: 1870-1872
Nature: Proposed new iron bridge to replace that of 1767, consisting of three semi-elliptical arches resting on stone piers and abutments. With S.U. Roberts. Presentment falls through, 1872, suitable tender for metal bridge not having been obtained.
Refs: IB 12, 1 Dec 1870, 288; 13, 1 Aug, 1 Sep 1871, 193,230; 14, 15 Jul 1872, 194

Name: ROBERTS, SAMUEL USSHER
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, ST JOHN'S BRIDGE
Date: 1870a-1872
Nature: Proposed new iron bridge to replace that of 1767, consisting of three semi-elliptical arches resting on stone piers and abutments. With Peter Burtchaell. Presentment falls through, 1872, suitable tender for metal bridge not having been obtained.
Refs: Tenders invited for taking down old bridge and rebuilding, General Advertiser, 10 Feb 1866; IB 12, 1 Dec 1870, 288; 13, 1 Aug, 1 Sep 1871, 193,230; 14, 15 Jul 1872, 194

Name: BURDEN, ALEXANDER MITCHELL
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, ST JOHN'S BRIDGE
Date: 1910
Nature: New single-span ferro-concrete bridge in association with L.G. Mouchel & Partners.
Refs: IB 52, 12 Nov 1910, 692; Nicola Gordon Bowe, '"The wild heath has broken out again in the heather field': Philanthropic endeavour and Arts and Crafts achievement in early 20th-century Kilkenny, Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies II (1999), 86; Brendan O'Donoghue, The Irish County Surveyors 1834-1944 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), 118

Name: MOUCHEL, L.G., & PARTNERS #
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, ST JOHN'S BRIDGE
Date: 1910
Nature: New ferro-concrete bridge of 140ft clear span designed by Alexander Mitchell Burden in association with Mouchel & Partners.
Refs: Brendan O'Donoghue, The Irish County Surveyors 1834-1944 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), 118. Advertisement with illus. in IB 62, 31 Jan 1920, 54.