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 |