Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Engineers, of Westminster. Mouchel & Partners collaborated with PIERCE PURCELL  PIERCE PURCELL on the construction of the the Kenmare Bridge, opened in 1933.(1)



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(1) IB 75, 20 May 1933, 405-6.


5 work entries listed in chronological order for MOUCHEL, L.G., & PARTNERS #


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Building: CO. SLIGO, SLIGO, DEEPWATER QUAY, MILL (LATER, BATCHELOR/ DAVITT WAREHOUSE)
Date:
Nature: New maize mill and grain silo for Messrs Harper Campbell Ltd, constructed entirely in ferro-concrete. Total height 56 feet.
Refs: L. G. Mouchel & Partners, Hennebique Ferro-Concrete (1909), 212 (illus.) (in IAA collection, IEI 151)

Building: CO. FERMANAGH, DRUMLONE, BRIDGE OVER RIVER TEMPO
Date: 1909
Nature: 42 ft single-span bridge, desiagned on Hennebique system. One of the earliest ferro-concrete bridges in Ireland. For Lisnaskea Rural District Council.
Refs: L.G. Mouchel & Partners, Hennebique Ferro-Concrete (1909), 265 (illus.) (in IAA collection, IEI 151)

Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, ST JOHN'S BRIDGE
Date: 1910
Nature: New ferro-concrete bridge of 140ft clear span designed by Alexander Mitchell Burden in association with Mouchel & Partners.
Refs: Brendan O'Donoghue, The Irish County Surveyors 1834-1944 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), 118. Advertisement with illus. in IB 62, 31 Jan 1920, 54.

Building: CO. WEXFORD, FERRYCARRIG, BRIDGE OVER RIVER SLANEY
Date: 1912
Nature: Reinforced concrete 12-span bridge. (Replaced 1979)
Refs: TICEI 105, 2

Building: CO. KERRY, KENMARE, BRIDGE (NEW)
Date: 1932-33
Nature: Reinforced concrete bridge comprising 2 150-ft parabolic arches passing through deck. By Mouchel & Partners, in collaboration with Pierce Purcell. Opened May 1933. Cost: £10,000. Contractor: A.E. Farr, London.
Refs: IB 75, 20 May 1933, 405-6; R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998), 269-70 (illus.)