Selected: CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, BRIDGE OVER RIVER SUIR
Name: | COVEY, THOMAS |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, BRIDGE OVER RIVER SUIR |
Date: | 1770 |
Nature: | Proposed design for 9-arch masonry bridge. Not executed. |
Refs: | Thomas Covey, A scheme for building a bridge over the river Swire at the city of Waterford(Waterford: Esther Crawley & Son, 1770); William Tighe, Statistical Observations relative to the County of Kilkenny (1802), 565. |
Name: | PLAW, JOHN # |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, BRIDGE OVER RIVER SUIR |
Date: | 1779 |
Nature: | JP exhibits design at RA. Unexecuted. |
Refs: | RA 1779, no. 238 |
Name: | COX, LEMUEL # |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, BRIDGE OVER RIVER SUIR |
Date: | 1793-4 |
Nature: | Fixed timber bridge of American oak. 38 spans, carrying roadway and two footways. Begun Apr 1893. Opened 1794. Cost (including ferry and £1000 guineas to architect) £30,000. |
Refs: | William Tighe, Statistical Observations relative to the County of Kilkenny (1802), 565(illus.); Dublin Penny Journal 1, 8 Dec 1832, 188; S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), Vol. 2, 686; IB 13, 15 Sep 1871, 236; 33, 1 May 1891, 100(illus.),105; J.O. Moynan, 'A short description of the existing bridges at Waterford and Portumna and of the proposed new bridges to replace them', TICEI 36 (1909-10), 224-250 (also published in IB 52, 25 Jun 1910, 405); Edmund Downey, Waterford's Bridges (Waterford Press, n.d.), ? |
Name: | JONES, JOHN EDWARD |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, BRIDGE OVER RIVER SUIR |
Date: | 1829-32 |
Nature: | In charge of construction (of what?). |
Refs: | W.G. Strickland, A Dictionary of Irish Artists (1913), I, 558 |
Name: | TARRANT, CHARLES [3] |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, BRIDGE OVER RIVER SUIR |
Date: | 1877 |
Nature: | Unexecuted proposal for replacing Lemuel Cox's wooden bridge. |
Refs: | Edmund Downey, Waterford's Bridges (Waterford News, n.d.), 37-47 (B. O'D.) |
Name: | GALWEY, CHARLES RICHARD |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, BRIDGE OVER RIVER SUIR |
Date: | 1879 |
Nature: | Prepares proposals with James Otway for new bridge to replace Lemuel Cox's wooden bridge. Unexecuted. |
Refs: | Information from Brendan O'Donoghue. |
Name: | OTWAY, JAMES |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, BRIDGE OVER RIVER SUIR |
Date: | 1879;1893 |
Nature: | Prepares proposals with Charles Richard Galwey for new bridge to replace Lemuel Cox's wooden bridge. Unexecuted. Further proposal by Otway, alone, 1893. Proposal for railway bridge at Granagh, 1900 |
Refs: | Edmund Downey, Waterford's Bridges (Waterford News, n.d.), ?; information from Brendan O'Donoghue |
Name: | SEATON, EDWARD PARKE # |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, BRIDGE OVER RIVER SUIR |
Date: | 1897 |
Nature: | Proposal for new combined road and railway bridge. |
Refs: | Edmund Downey, Waterford's Bridges (Waterford News, n.d.), ? |
Name: | FRIEL, WILLIAM |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, BRIDGE OVER RIVER SUIR |
Date: | 1901 |
Nature: | Proposal for new bridge at Bilberry Rock. With Thomas Scully. |
Refs: | Edmund Downey, Waterford's Bridges (Waterford News, n.d.), ? |
Name: | SCULLY, THOMAS |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, BRIDGE OVER RIVER SUIR |
Date: | 1901 |
Nature: | Proposal for new bridge at Bilberry Rock. With William Friel. |
Refs: | Edmund Downey, Waterford's Bridges (Waterford News, n.d.), ? |
Name: | FLEMING, MICHAEL JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, BRIDGE OVER RIVER SUIR |
Date: | 1902 |
Nature: | Proposed new bridge 900 ft upstream from timber bridge. |
Refs: | Edmund Downey, Waterford's Bridges (Waterford News, n.d.), ? |
Name: | ARROL, WILLIAM (SIR) & CO. # |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, BRIDGE OVER RIVER SUIR |
Date: | 1902;1908 |
Nature: | Unexecuted proposals, 1902 and 1908, for new steel bridge. |
Refs: | Edmund Downey, Waterford's Bridges (Waterford, n.d.), ? |
Name: | WALLER, JAMES HARDRESS DE WARENNE |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, BRIDGE OVER RIVER SUIR |
Date: | 1910-13 |
Nature: | JHdeWW clerk of works for building new ferro-concrete bridge across Slaney at cost of £5,000. Elected to post, 1 Sep 1910. |
Refs: | IB 54, 26 Oct 1912, 619; 82, 3 Feb 1940, 70; Edmund Downey, Waterford's Bridges (Waterford News, n.d.), ? |
Name: | BURDEN, ALEXANDER MITCHELL |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, BRIDGE OVER RIVER SUIR |
Date: | 1910-1913 |
Nature: | AMB engineer-in-chief for new ferro-concrete bridge with lifting section. With M. Mouchel, chief engineer of Hennebique Co., & W.E. L'Estrange Duffin. Contractors: Kinnear, Moodie & Co., Glasgow. (Lifting portion of bridge designed by Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Co., Darlington; opening mechanism designed by Claude W.Hill, Westminster.) |
Refs: | IB 52, 9 Jul 1910, 450; 53, 18 Feb 1911, 121; 55, 4 Jan 1913, 6; J.O. Moynan, 'A short description of the existing bridges at Waterford and Portumna and of the proposed new bridges to replace them', TICEI 36 (1909-10), 224-250 (also published in IB 52, 25 Jun 1910, 405); Edmund Downey, Waterford's Bridges (Waterford News, n.d.), ?; Brendan O'Donoghue, The Irish County Surveyors 1834-1944 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), 118-9 |
Name: | DUFFIN, WILLIAM EDMUND L'ESTRANGE |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, BRIDGE OVER RIVER SUIR |
Date: | 1910-1913 |
Nature: | New ferro-concrete bridge with lifting section. With M. Mouchel, chief engineer of Hennebique Co., & Alexander Mitchell Burden. Contractors: Kinnear, Moodie & Co., Glasgow. Lifting portion of bridge designed by Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Co., Darlington; opening mechanism designed by Claude W.Hill, Westminster. Cost: £80,000. Begun Jun 1911. Opened 1913 by J.E. Redmond, MP. |
Refs: |
IB 52, 9 Jul 1910, 450; 53, 18 Feb 1911, 121; 55, 4 Jan 1913, 6; J.O. Moynan, 'A short description of the existing bridges at Waterford and Portumna and of the proposed new bridges to replace them', TICEI 36 (1909-10), 224-250 (also published in IB 52, 25 Jun 1910, 405); B 108, 27 Jun 1915, 739-40(illus.); Edmund Downey, Waterford's Bridges (Waterford News, n.d.), ?; Holly Bough (Cork Examiner, 1952), 19. |
Name: | RATCLIFFE, WILLIAM HERBERT # |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, BRIDGE OVER RIVER SUIR |
Date: | 1913a |
Nature: | Lifting portion of bridge (designed by Cleveland Bridge and Engineering Co., Darlington; opening mechanism designed by Claude W.Hill, Westminster) |
Refs: | Application for membership of ICEI in ICEI Membership Applications, Vol. IV, no. 158 (NLI microfilm, Pos. 9386) |
Name: | PENROSE, THOMAS |
Building: | CO. WATERFORD, WATERFORD, BRIDGE OVER RIVER SUIR |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | Unexecuted proposal for 11-arch bridge over River Suir. |
Refs: | Elevation in private collection, Dublin; see Frederick O'Dwyer, 'Making connections in Georgian Ireland', BIGS 37 (1996-97), 16-17(illus.),18 |