Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WEXFORD, NEW ROSS, MOUNTGARRET BRIDGE

Name: FARRELL, JAMES BARRY
Building: CO. WEXFORD, NEW ROSS, MOUNTGARRET BRIDGE
Date: 1867-69
Nature: Free lattice girder bridge between New Ross & Rosbercon, replacing old wooden bridge which was partly destroyed in Jan 1867. Designed with S.U. Roberts & Peter Burtchaell. Contractor: Kinnaird Bros., Leeds? Opened to traffic, Aug 1869. Cost: £50,419.
Refs: Henry Nathan Maynard, 'The New Ross Bridge', Min. Proc. ICE 32 (1870-71), 146-151 (abstract in IB 13, 15 Apr 1871, 101); Min.Proc.Inst.CE 113 (1892-3), 345; B 25, 8 Jun,31 Aug 1867, 407,648; IB 9, 15 Nov 1867, 304; 10, 1 Apr,15 Sep 1868, 89,231; 38th Report of Board of Public Works, Ireland (1869), 16

Name: BURTCHAELL, PETER
Building: CO. WEXFORD, NEW ROSS, MOUNTGARRET BRIDGE
Date: 1868-1869
Nature: Free lattice girder bridge between New Ross & Rosbercon, replacing old wooden bridge which was partly destroyed in Jan 1867. Designed by J.B Farrell with S.U. Roberts & Peter Burtchaell. Contractor: Kennaird Bros, Leeds? Opened to traffic, Aug 1869.
Refs: Henry Nathan Maynard, 'The New Ross Bridge' in Min.Proc.Inst.CE 32 (1870-71), 146-151, Pl. 12; Brendan O'Donoghue, The Irish County Surveyors 1834-1944 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), 121.

Name: ROBERTS, SAMUEL USSHER
Building: CO. WEXFORD, NEW ROSS, MOUNTGARRET BRIDGE
Date: 1868-1869
Nature: Free lattice girder bridge between New Ross & Rosbercon, replacing old wooden bridge which was partly destroyed in Jan 1867. Designed by J.B Ferrell with S.U. Roberts & Peter Burtchaell. Contractor: Kinnaird Bros., Leeds? Opened to traffic, Aug 1869.
Refs: Henry Nathan Maynard, 'The New Ross Bridge' in Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers 32 (1870-71), 146-151, Pl. 12.

Name: DELAP, ALFRED DOVER
Building: CO. WEXFORD, NEW ROSS, MOUNTGARRET BRIDGE
Date: 1927
Nature: Designed by AWD.  Construction work to begin, Oct 1927. To cost about £22,000. Contractor: John Hearn, Waterford.
Refs: Irish Times,  28 Sep 1927;  TICEI 70 (1943-44), 261.

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WEXFORD, NEW ROSS, MOUNTGARRET BRIDGE
Date: 1929
Nature:  Tenders invited for erecting caretaker's house at Ferry, Nov 1929. For Mountgarret Bridge Committee.
Refs: Irish Times, 14 Nov 1929

Name: COX, LEMUEL #
Building: CO. WEXFORD, NEW ROSS, MOUNTGARRET BRIDGE
Date: ?
Nature: Present bridge replaces 'an earlier wooden bridge built to designs prepared by Lemuel Cox' .
Refs: www.buildingsof ireland.ie