Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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