Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

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