Selected: CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, RAILWAY STATION (MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY)
Name: | TURNER, RICHARD * |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, RAILWAY STATION (MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY) |
Date: | 1850 |
Nature: | 80ft span roof consisting of simple curved beams and covered with corrugated iron with glass in the centre.. First design of its kind in Ireland |
Refs: | Min.Proc.Inst.CE 14, 265 |
Name: | MULVANY, JOHN SKIPTON |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, RAILWAY STATION (MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY) |
Date: | 1851 |
Nature: | For Midland Great Western Railway Co. Begun early 1851; to be completed by 1 Aug. Contractor: William Dargan. |
Refs: | B 9, 29 Mar 1851, 207; 10, 20 Dec 1851, 800; RHA 1854, no. 255; Jeanne Sheehy, 'Railway Architecture - its heyday', Journal of the Irish Railway Record Society 12, no. 68 (Oct 1975), 137; Frederick O'Dwyer, 'John Skipton Mulvany, architect, 1813-1870', Martello (Summer 1988), 38; Frederick O'Dwyer, 'The architecture of John Skipton Mulvany', Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 3 (2000), 37(illus.),38 |
Name: | HEMANS, GEORGE WILLOUGHBY |
Building: | CO. GALWAY, GALWAY, RAILWAY STATION (MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY) |
Date: | 1851ca |
Nature: | 'The station front…is…by Mulvany, but George Willoughby Hemans, engineer to the company, seems to have been involved in the design of the shed.' |
Refs: | Jeanne Sheehy, 'Railway Architecture - its heyday', Journal of the Irish Railway Record Society 12, no. 68 (Oct 1975), 137 |