Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, SHANNON BRIDGE

Name: ATKINSON, CHARLES ROBERT
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, SHANNON BRIDGE
Date: 1850
Nature: CRA incharge of construction of bridge to designs by George Willoughby Hemans
Refs: Min.Proc.Inst.CE 100 (1889-90, Pt. II), 378

Name: HEMANS, GEORGE WILLOUGHBY
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, SHANNON BRIDGE
Date: 1850
Nature: Swing bridge over Shannon for Midland Great Western Railway Co., supported on cast-iron cylinders and erected by Fox, Henderson & Co.Cost: £25,000 under superintendence of Charles Robert Atkinson. Contractor's engineer: J. Millner.  Conttractor for stone bridge abutments: Mr Dargan. Sinking of cylinders effected by Potts's pneumatic process.
Refs: Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 13 (Dec 1850), 392; illustrated in Nicholson's Dictionary of…Architecture (1870ca), pl. 164; Min.Proc.Inst.CE 14 (1854-5), 467-8;  IB 68, 13 Nov 1926, 848;  Min.Proc.Inst.CE 39 (1874-75, Pt. I), 264-266;  P.J. Currivan, 'Athlone as a Railway Centre', Journal of the Irish Railway Record Society (E.McP; full ref. not given, nor source of date 1850)

Name: FOX, CHARLES (SIR) #
Building: CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, SHANNON BRIDGE
Date: 1850
Nature: Swing bridge over Shannon for Midland Great Western Railway Co., erected by Fox, Henderson & Co.Cost: £25,000.
Refs: Obituary of Fox in Min.Proc.Inst.CE 39 ((1874-75, Pt. I), 265