Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, DOCKS

Name: NIMMO, ALEXANDER [1]#
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, DOCKS
Date: 1824
Nature: Nimmo original engineer, but works completed to plans by Charles Vignoles. Supervising architect: 'L. Grantham'(sic).
Refs: First Report of the Commissioners on Public Works, Ireland…for the year 1832, 5

Name: DEANE, THOMAS (SIR)
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, DOCKS
Date: 1839
Nature: TD & Co. contractors for works at Limerick docks & quays.
Refs: Cork Constitution,1,20 Jun 1839; Civil Engineer & Architect's Journal 3 (Aug, 1840), 273.

Name: GIBBONS, BARRY DUNCAN
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, DOCKS
Date: 1852
Nature: Plans for same by BDG, engineer to the Board of Public Works. Work supervised by John Long.
Refs: B 10, 5 Jun,30 Oct 1852, 359.

Name: LONG, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, DOCKS
Date: 1852-53
Nature: JL in charge of construction of floating dock, opened by Lord Lieutenant (Lord St Germans) in1853. Covers 8 acres and can accommodate 80 vessels. For Board of Works. Cost: £54,000.
Refs: B 10, 30 Oct 1852, 689; M. Lenihan, Limerick; its history and antiquities (1866), 1,471; APSD, V, L, 91; R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998), 239

Name: MALLET, ROBERT [2]
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, DOCKS
Date: 1852ca
Nature: Dock gates designed and executed by J. & R. Mallet. Installation of gates directed by Mr P. Toomey.
Refs: B 11, 8 Jan 1853, 29; Min.Proc.Inst.CE 68 (1881-82), 300

Name: CORBETT, WILLIAM EDWARD
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, DOCKS
Date: 1867-1873
Nature: New graving dock formed of solid limestone rock, 480 x 60 ft. City engineer 'to prepare plans immediately', 1867. Inaugurated by Earl and Countess Spencer, May 1873. Cost c. £20,000.
Refs: IB 9, 15 Feb 1867, 51; B 25, 24 May 1873, 411

Name: RHODES, THOMAS #
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, DOCKS
Date: ?
Nature: Proposed improvements.
Refs: R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998), 239

Name: SIMINGTON, THOMAS ALOYSIUS
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, DOCKS
Date: ?
Nature: TAS contractor's engineer for extension of docks.
Refs: Brendan O'Donoghue, The Irish County Surveyors 1834-1944 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), 299