Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, SARSFIELD BRIDGE

Name: NIMMO, ALEXANDER [1]#
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, SARSFIELD BRIDGE
Date: 1823-1835
Nature: Designed by AN 'on the plan exactly of the beautiful Pont Neuilly over the Seine above Paris' (designed by Perronet). FS laid 25 Oct 1824. Opened 5 Aug 1835. Cost: £89,061. Contractor: Clements & Son (Lee & Jacobs say Hill & Clements). Supervising engineer: 'L. Grantham' (i.e. John Grantham[1]?)
Refs: Plan & elevation, 1823, in NA, OPW5HC/6/0340A; elevation in NLI, MS 16 H 22(3); First Report of the Commissioners on Public Works, Ireland…for the year 1832, 5; Second Report of the Commissioners on Public Works, Ireland…for the year 1833, illus.; J.P. Lawson, Gazetteer of Ireland (1842), 604; M. Lenihan, Limerick; its history and antiquities (1866)469-70,489; R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998), 247-9(illus.); Limerick Chronicle, 19 Apr 1834, cited in David Lee & Debbie Jacobs, James Pain, architect (Limerick Civic Trust, 2005), 271(illus.),272,307;  Noel P. Wilkins, Alexander Nimmo, Master Engineer, 1783-1832: public works and civil surveys (Irish Academic Press, 2009), 224-230(illus.).