Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, FASTNET LIGHTHOUSE

Name: HALPIN, GEORGE [1]
Building: CO. CORK, FASTNET LIGHTHOUSE
Date: 1848-1854
Nature: New cast-iron light house. Light first exhibited 1 Jan 1854. Ironwork by John & Robert Mallet, Dublin.
Refs: Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 12 (Apr 1849), 128; B 8, 5 Oct 1850, 477; 20, 19 Jul 1862, 508; IB 22, 1,15 Aug,1 Sep 1880, 222,?, 251; Bill Long, Bright Light, White Water (1993), 91-93

Name: MALLET, ROBERT [2]
Building: CO. CORK, FASTNET LIGHTHOUSE
Date: 1848-49
Nature: Constructed by RM from designs by George Halpin.
Refs: Min.Proc.Inst.CE 68 (1881-82), 301

Name: COTTON, CHARLES PHILIP
Building: CO. CORK, FASTNET LIGHTHOUSE
Date: 1865-69
Nature: New cast iron casing for lighthouse. Cast iron by Edmundson, Dublin.
Refs: John S. Sloane, 'A History of the lighthouses of Ireland…VI', IB 22, 15 Oct 1880, 290

Name: SLOANE, JOHN SWAN
Building: CO. CORK, FASTNET LIGHTHOUSE
Date: 1865p
Nature: JSS takes measurements for new cast iron houses for staff. Cast iron by William Turner, Oxmantown Foundry.
Refs: John S. Sloane, 'A History of the lighthouses of Ireland…VI', IB 22, 15 Oct 1880, 290.

Name: DOUGLASS, JAMES NICHOLAS (SIR) #
Building: CO. CORK, FASTNET LIGHTHOUSE
Date: 1866
Nature: JND consulted re improvements.
Refs: Bill Long, Bright Light, White Water (1993), 93

Name: DOUGLASS, WILLIAM
Building: CO. CORK, FASTNET LIGHTHOUSE
Date: 1896-1904
Nature: New tower on lower site designed by WD. Granite supplied by John Freeman & Sons, Penrhyn, Cornwall.  After retirement of WD in 1900 work conducted by Charles William Scott. Stonemason and foreman:James Kavanagh.
Refs: Charles William Scott, History of the Fastnet Rock Lighthouses. Illustrated with thirty-five reproductions of photographs, to which are appended thirty-four plates of reduced copies of working drawings. Drawn up by desire of the Commissioners of Irish Lights (London & Aylesbury, 1906);  James Morrissey, A History of the Fastnet Lighthouse (Dublin, 2005);  Life of William Douglass, M.Inst.C.E. formerly engineer-in-chief to the Commissioners of Irish Lights by the author of the 'Life of Sir James Nicholas Douglass [Thomas Williams]' (Privately published, 1923), on-line version at http://pharology.eu/resources/Douglass.pdf