Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Engineer for new works of the Great Western Railway. In 1909 Walter Armstrong designed two road and railway bridges - Clontarf and Brian Boru Bridges - to run over the north and south arms of the River Lee in Cork Harbour The bridges, opened on 1 January 1912, were 'required in connection with the railway line which is to run through the streets of the city round the west side of the harbour, joining up two stations' as 'part of the Great Western Railway's scheme for linking up the South of Ireland with South Wales'.(1)



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(1) Building News 97, 3 Dec 1909, 848


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Building: CO. CORK, CORK, HARBOUR, CLONTARF AND BRIAN BORU BRIDGES
Date: 1909
Nature: 2 new road and rail bridges over N & S arms of River Lee to link railway termini. For Gt Western Rlwy Co. Tender of Sir William Errol & Co.. accepted, Dec 1909. Bridges opened 1 Jan 1912.
Refs: Building News 97, 3 Dec 1909, 848; T.F. McNamara, Portrait of Cork (1981), 210-211(illus.)