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 |