Selected: CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, HARBOUR
Name: | NIMMO, ALEXANDER [1]# |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, HARBOUR |
Date: | 1822;1830 |
Nature: | Improvements and new breakwater (known as Slate Pier, Nimmo's Pier or Claddagh pier), 1822-27. Proposed floating docks (but built according to plans by John Killaly) and canal linking docks to Lough Corrib (unexecuted). |
Refs: |
'A return of all the public money expended by direction of Mr Nimmo on Public Works in Ireland - ordered to be printed 7 July 1830', Accounts & Papers 27, 305; R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998), 222; Noel P. Wilkins, Alexander Nimmo, Master Engineer, 1783-1832: public works and civil surveys (Irish Academic Press, 2009), 366-9(illus.). |
Name: | ROBERTS, SAMUEL USSHER |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, HARBOUR |
Date: | 1860;1863-64 |
Nature: | Improvements & preparation of facilities for transatlantic packets, including reconstruction of pier & graving dock, sheds &c. |
Refs: | DB 2, 1 Jan 1860, 186; 5, 1,15 Feb,15 Jun,1 Oct 1863, 17,29,106,165; 6, 1 May 1864, 87 |
Name: | PRICE, JAMES [1] |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, HARBOUR |
Date: | 1882 |
Nature: | Works on harbour and docks being carried out from plans and under superintendence of JP. |
Refs: | IB 24, 15 Nov 1882, 337 |
Name: | KENNEDY, MICHAEL JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, HARBOUR |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | MJK 'was actively involved in the planning of development works'. |
Refs: | Brendan O'Donoghue, The Irish County Surveyors 1834-1944 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), 226 |