Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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