Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DOWN, NEWRY NAVIGATION

Name: CASTLE, RICHARD
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWRY NAVIGATION
Date: 1733-6
Nature: RC engineer of canal
Refs: PRONI D 2092/1/4 p.137 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); JRSAI 41 (1911), 244; The Knight of Glin, 'Richard Castle, architect, his biography and works' in BIGS 7, no. 1 (Jan - Mar 1964), 32-38; W.A. McCutcheon, The Canals of the North of Ireland (1965), 18-20

Name: GILBERT, -
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWRY NAVIGATION
Date: 1737-1741
Nature: Completion of same, with Thomas Steers.
Refs: Ruth Delany, A Celebration of 250 years of Ireland's inland waterways (1988), 22

Name: STEERS, THOMAS *
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWRY NAVIGATION
Date: 1737-1741
Nature: Steers reports on same, 1736. In charge of works, 1737-1741. Canal opened 28 Mar 1742. Assisted by - Gilbert.
Refs: Dublin Gazette, 19-22 Nov 1738; W.A. McCutcheon, The Canals of the North of Ireland (1965), 20; Ruth Delany, A Celebration of 250 years of Ireland's inland waterways (1988), 22; A.W. Skempton et al., A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland I (2002), 653

Name: NIMMO, ALEXANDER [1]#
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWRY NAVIGATION
Date: 1829
Nature: Proposed plan of improvement to ship canal and upper canal. (AN's plan shows Warrenpoint laid out round a regular square and Newry laid out as a series of squares and crescents)
Refs: Plan (published by Allen's Lthographers, Dame St, Dublin) and other papers in Staffordshire Record office, Anglesea Papers, Ireland 19th cent.;  Noel P. Wilkins, Alexander Nimmo, Master Engineer, 1783-1832: public works and civil surveys (Irish Academic Press, 2009), 257-259


Name: RENNIE, JOHN [2] (SIR) #
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWRY NAVIGATION
Date: 1829p
Nature: Deepening of river channel to be effected according to plan given by Sir John Rennie. Resident engineer: John Ramsay.
Refs: 1st Report of the Commissioners of Public Works, Ireland (1833), 6; Min.Proc.Inst.CE 4 (1845), 371-2; John Rennie, 'On the improvement of the navigation of the River Newry', Min.Proc.Inst.CE 10 (1850-51), 277; Noel P. Wilkins, Alexander Nimmo, Master Engineer, 1783-1832: public works and civil surveys (Irish Academic Press, 2009), 258.


Name: FERGUSON & MCILVEEN
Building: CO. DOWN, NEWRY NAVIGATION
Date: 1929
Nature: Deepening and widening of ship canal.
Refs: IB 71, 19 Jan 1929, 66; 78, 22 Aug 1936, ?; R. Ferguson, 'Newry Ship Canal Improvement Scheme', Journal of the Institution of Civil Engineers 4 (Nov 1936), 51