Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILKENNY, THOMASTOWN, RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER RIVER NORE

Name: MALLET, ROBERT [2]
Building: CO. KILKENNY, THOMASTOWN, RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER RIVER NORE
Date: 1846-1850
Nature: Timber viaduct for Waterford & Kilkenny Railway Co.; 'though nominally prepared by Captain Moorsom, was re-designed by Mallet, as failure might have resulted from following the original drawings'. (Cox). Contractors for foundations & masonry nearly to springing of cross arches): Hammond & Murray. Contractor for woodwork and maintenance of same: Robert Mallet. .
Refs: Min.Proc.Inst.CE 11 (1851-52), 426-434; 22 (1862-63), 325-326; 68 (1881-82), 300; timberwork illus. in E.Lomax & T. Gunyon, eds., Nicholson's Dictionary of the Science and Practice of Architecture (n.d.), Pl. ?; R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998), 118-119(illus.)

Name: MOORSOM, WILLIAM SCARTH (CAPT.) #
Building: CO. KILKENNY, THOMASTOWN, RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER RIVER NORE
Date: 1846-1850
Nature: Timber viaduct for Waterford & Kilkenny Railway Co.. Contractors for foundations & masonry nearly to springing of cross arches): Hammond & Murray. Contractor for woodwork and maintenance of same: Robert Mallet.
Refs: Model exh. at Conversazione of Inst.CE, 22 May 1849 (Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 12 (Jun 1849), 185;  W.S. Moorsom, 'Description of the viaduct erected over the River Nore, near Thomastown, in the County of Kilkenny, to carry the Waterford and Kilmenny Railway', Min.Proc.Inst.CE 11 (1851-52), 426-434; timberwork illus. in E.Lomax & T. Gunyon, eds., Nicholson's Dictionary of the Science and Practice of Architecture (n.d.), Pl. ?

Name: COURTNEY, STEPHENS & BAILEY *
Building: CO. KILKENNY, THOMASTOWN, RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER RIVER NORE
Date: 1876-77
Nature: For Waterford & Kilkenny Railway.
Refs: Min.Proc.Inst.CE 68 (1881-82), 300; R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998), 118

Name: GALWEY, CHARLES RICHARD
Building: CO. KILKENNY, THOMASTOWN, RAILWAY VIADUCT OVER RIVER NORE
Date: 1876-77
Nature: Designed iron lattice girder to replace timber trusses. Constructed by Courtenay, Stephens & Bailey
Refs: Min.Proc.Inst.CE 68 (1881-82), 300; W.A. McCutcheon, Railway History in Pictures: Ireland(1969), II, 37; R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998), 118-119(illus.)