Selected: CO. GALWAY, ROUNDSTONE
Name: | NIMMO, ALEXANDER [1]# |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, ROUNDSTONE |
Date: | 1822p |
Nature: | New town and harbour projected by AN. Described by H.D. Inglis in 1834 as 'straggling village, little more than seven years old' with 35 house and 8-10 'in building' (Ireland in 1834 (1834), 65) |
Refs: |
Sean de Courcy, 'Alexander Nimmo: Engineer Extrordinary', in Connemara: Journal of the Clifden & Connemara Heritage Group, 2, no. 1 (1995), 52; Noel P. Wilkins, Alexander Nimmo, Master Engineer, 1783-1832: public works and civil surveys (Irish Academic Press, 2009), 360(illus.). |