Selected: CO. CORK, BALLINHASSIG, CHETWYND VIADUCT
Name: | LEAHY, EDMUND |
Building: | CO. CORK, BALLINHASSIG, CHETWYND VIADUCT |
Date: | 1845p |
Nature: | Viaduct 'on a novel construction' proposed by 'Mssrs. Leahy' consistingof 3 equal spans of 240 ft each with stone piers 'in the Doric style'; 'there is neither a mortice and tenon joint, or a spike or nail in the entire structure, nor will there be any necessity of centering for its erection'. First stone laid, 18(?) Dec 1845. |
Refs: |
B 3, 26 Apr 1845, 201; Cork Constitution, 25 Dec 1845 (information from Roger Herlihy, Cork, Jul 2011). |
Name: | NIXON, CHARLES # |
Building: | CO. CORK, BALLINHASSIG, CHETWYND VIADUCT |
Date: | 1851 |
Nature: | Cast iron construction. 4 spans of 110ft each. Opened 1851. Constructed by Fox Henderson & Co. |
Refs: | B 9, 18 Jan,31 May 1851, 46,346; R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998), 258-9(illus.) |
Name: | KLASEN, PETER JOSEPH |
Building: | CO. CORK, BALLINHASSIG, CHETWYND VIADUCT |
Date: | ? |
Nature: | PJK exhibits model of his design for lattice viaduct consisting of two spans of 240 ft each, supported by pier in centre at Dublin Industrial Exhibition, 1853. |
Refs: |
Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 16 (Jul 1853), 272. |