Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WHITWORTH BRIDGE

Name: KNOWLES, GEORGE #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WHITWORTH BRIDGE
Date: 1816-18
Nature: Adapted from James Savage's design for Richmond Bridge by GK, the contractor.
Refs: M. Craig, Dublin 1660-1860 (1952), 289; The Liffey Bridges from Islandbridge to Eastlink: a historical and technical report compiled by the Liffey Bridges Survey Team (1987), 78; J.W. De Courcy, The Liffey in Dublin (1996), 218;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 696.


Name: HALPIN, GEORGE [1]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WHITWORTH BRIDGE
Date: 1816-18
Nature: John S. Sloane gives responsibility for the Whitworth and Richmond bridges to George Halpin[1].
Refs: IB 22, 1 Apr 1880, 99.

Name: POOL, ROBERT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, WHITWORTH BRIDGE
Date: ?
Nature: 'We have also seen Robert Pool's designs for Whitworth Bridge, and the new hotel at the Pigeon House - examples of Ballast Office drawings nearly a century ago, that might well be imitated by even good draftsmen of to-day'
Refs: IB 24, 1 Feb 1882, 43