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 |