Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, CORK, ST PATRICK'S BRIDGE (NEW)

Name: BENSON, JOHN (SIR)
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, ST PATRICK'S BRIDGE (NEW)
Date: 1859-1861
Nature: New masonry bridge of 3 elliptical arches. (JB provided 3 designs for iron swivel, iron single arch and stone bridge. Iron single arch design initially chosen but stone bridge eventually built.)    FS laid  by Earl of Carlisle,10 Nov 1859.  Contr: Joshua Hargrave. Clerk of Works: Barnard. (According to Robert Walker bridge was finished in 1863 and cost £17,000.)
Refs: B 15, 17 Jan 1857, 78; 17, 5 Mar 1859, 173; 18, 21 Jul 1860, 464; 19, 2 Mar,19 Nov 1861,21 Dec 147,759,887;  DB 1, 1 May,1 Dec 1859, 62,155; 2, 1 Jul 1860, 297; 3, 1 Feb,1 Aug,15 Dec 1861, 415,593,712;  Irish Times, 12 Nov 1859;  Cork Examiner, 12 Dec 1861 (information from Ronnie Herlihy, Cork); MS notes by R. Walker, Cork city surveyor, c. 1890;  Colin Rynne, The Industrial Archaeology of Cork City and its Environs  (1999),194

Name: HARGRAVE, JOSHUA
Building: CO. CORK, CORK, ST PATRICK'S BRIDGE (NEW)
Date: 1859-1861
Nature: Contractor for rebuilding (Engineer: Sir John Benson)
Refs: APSD, Part 14 (1864), H, 22; inscription on SE parapet of bridge