Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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.).