Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WATERFORD, LISMORE, BRIDGE

Name: MORRISON, JOHN [1]
Building: CO. WATERFORD, LISMORE, BRIDGE
Date: 1771-72
Nature: JM submits 6 plans for same, but bridge designed by Thomas Ivory and built by Darley & Stokes. For 5th Duke of Devonshire. (Three arches of causeway destroyed by flood in Nov 1853)
Refs: Drawings and estimates for 6 alternative schemes (4 in timber & 2 in stone), 1771 and 1772, in Chatsworth archive CW (Curry) MS L/5 Bundle: 1774-1791; Jane Meredith, ''No Small Thing': Thomas Ivory's bridge at Lismore', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 14 (1998), 103 (article based on her History of Art Senior Sophister Thesis of the same title, Trinity College, Dublin, April 1996)

Name: DARLEY, GEORGE [1]*
Building: CO. WATERFORD, LISMORE, BRIDGE
Date: 1773-1779
Nature: To be built by GD and William Stokes.
Refs: NLI, special list 15 and Chatsworth, Devonshire papers, Currey's box 5 (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Jane Meredith, ''No Small Thing': Thomas Ivory's bridge at Lismore', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 14 (1998), 102-114(illus.)

Name: IVORY, THOMAS
Building: CO. WATERFORD, LISMORE, BRIDGE
Date: 1773-1779
Nature: Designed by Ivory and built by Darley & Stokes. For 5th Duke of Devonshire. (Three arches of causeway destroyed by flood in Nov 1853)
Refs: Drawings and letters from Ivory in Chatsworth Archive, CW (Curry) MS L/5 Bundle: 1774-1791; E. McParland, 'Thomas Ivory', BIGS 17 (Jan-Jun 1974), 17; Jane Meredith, ''No Small Thing': Thomas Ivory's bridge at Lismore', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 14 (1998), 102-114(illus.) (article based on her History of Art Senior Sophister Thesis of the same title, Trinity College, Dublin, April 1996)

Name: STOKES, WILLIAM [1]*
Building: CO. WATERFORD, LISMORE, BRIDGE
Date: 1773-1779
Nature: Built by George Darley and William Stokes to designs by Thomas Ivory for William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire.
Refs: NLI, special sist 15 and letter from Richard Chenevix, Bishop of Waterford, Aug 1775, in Limerick MSS (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Jane Meredith, ''No Small Thing': Thomas Ivory's bridge at Lismore', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 14 (1998), 102-114(illus.)

Name: DIXON, JAMES
Building: CO. WATERFORD, LISMORE, BRIDGE
Date: 1773?
Nature: JD submits proposal but design by Thomas Ivory selected. For 5th Duke of Devonshire.
Refs: E. McParland, 'Thomas Ivory', BIGS 17 (Jan-Jun 1974), 17; Jane Meredith, ''No Small Thing': Thomas Ivory's bridge at Lismore', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 14 (1998), 102-114(illus.)

Name: SCHAW, ALEXANDER
Building: CO. WATERFORD, LISMORE, BRIDGE
Date: 1853
Nature: AS designs new 5-arch causeway to bridge in Dec 1853 after former causeway was partially destroyed by floods in Nov 1853. Contractor: Albert Williams, Dublin (£2,000). (New causeway collapsed without warning on 26 Dec 1855.)
Refs: Lismore Papers, NLI, MS 7186, Curry Letter Book, 366 (B.O'D.); Brendan O'Donoghue, The Irish County Surveyors 1834-1944 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), 297

Name: PAXTON, JOSEPH (SIR) #
Building: CO. WATERFORD, LISMORE, BRIDGE
Date: 1856
Nature:

JP consulted by Duke of Devonshire re rebuilding of bridge, 1856.

Refs: Brendan O'Donoghue, The Irish County Surveyors 1834-1944 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), 307-8

Name: TARRANT, CHARLES [3]
Building: CO. WATERFORD, LISMORE, BRIDGE
Date: 1856-58
Nature: Causeway on N side of bridge and all but main arch of bridge rebuilt by George H. Hunt and E.P. Nagle to design of CT, possibly incorporating ideas of Joseph Paxton.. (Former causeway collapsed without warning, 26 Dec 1855)
Refs: Co. Waterford Grand Jury Presentments, Summer Assizes 1856; NLI, Lismore papers, MS 7188, Curry letter book, 1855-58, pp.65,89,136,149,169,335,737 (B. O'D.);  R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998), 244;  Brendan O'Donoghue, The Irish County Surveyors 1834-1944 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), 307-8.

Name: NAGLE, EDWARD P.
Building: CO. WATERFORD, LISMORE, BRIDGE
Date: 1856-58
Nature: Causeway on N side of bridge rebuilt by C.H. Hunt and E.P. Nagle to design of Charles Tarrant. (Former causeway collapsed without warning, 26 Dec 1855)
Refs: R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998), 244