Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. GALWAY, PORTUMNA, BRIDGE (1911)

Name: GILL, ROBERT PAUL
Building: CO. GALWAY, PORTUMNA, BRIDGE (1911)
Date:
Nature: Work supervised by Robert Paul Gill as assistant county surveyor for Co. Tipperary.
Refs: Information from Rose Hogan, granddaughter of Robert Paul Gill, Dec 2011.

Name: STANIER, C.E. #
Building: CO. GALWAY, PORTUMNA, BRIDGE (1911)
Date: 1911
Nature: Designed by CES to specification of John Ousley Bonsall Moynan.  Work supervised by Robert Paul Gill as assistant county surveyor for Co. Tipperary.  Contractors: Heenan & Froude, Worcester & Manchester (builders of the Blackpool Tower). Cost: £21,499 (?or £21,409)
Refs: J.O. Moynan, ‘A short description of the existing Bridges at Waterford and Portumna, and of the proposed new structures to replace them’, TICEI 36 (1910), 225-250; IB 53, 18 Mar 1911, 161,185; R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998), 219;  information from Rose Hogan, granddaughter of Robert Paul Gill, Dec 2011.

Name: MOYNAN, JOHN OUSELEY BONSALL
Building: CO. GALWAY, PORTUMNA, BRIDGE (1911)
Date: 1911
Nature: Designed by C.E. Stanier, London, to specification of JOM. Work supervised by Robert Paul Gill as assistant county surveyor for Co. Tipperary.  Contractors: Heenan & Froude, Worcester & Manchester (builders of the Blackpool Tower). Cost: £21,499 (?or £21,409)
Refs: J.O. Moynan, ‘A short description of the existing Bridges at Waterford and Portumna, and of the proposed new structures to replace them’, TICEI 36 (1910), 225-250;  IB 53, 18 Mar 1911, 161,185; R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998), 219;  information from Rose Hogan, granddaughter of Robert Paul Gill, Dec 2011.