Selected: CO. KERRY, KENMARE, BRIDGE (OLD)
| Name: | BALD, WILLIAM |
| Building: | CO. KERRY, KENMARE, BRIDGE (OLD) |
| Date: | 1837-1841 |
| Nature: | Wrought iron suspension bridge with two half catenaries of pairs of chains, suspended from central tower on island in middle of estuary. FS laid 1838 by Marquess of Lansdowne. Paid for jointly by Marquess of Lansdowne and Board of Works. Cost £5000 (or £7280?). First bridge of its kind attempted in Ireland. Model by W[sic] Uniacke Townsend exh. at Dublin Industrial Exhibition, 1853. |
| Refs: | Photocopy of specifications, sketch elevations, plan and section of proposed bridge, with accompanying letter from WB to Co. Burgoyne, Board of Works, Dublin, dated Jun 1837 in IAA (RP.D.78.6); Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal I (1837-38), 315-317(illus.); Mr & Mrs S.C. Hall, Ireland (1841-3), I, 162; J. Windele, Historical and Descriptive Notices of the City of Cork (1849), ?; R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998), 269; www.kenmare.com/history |
| Name: | FARRELL, JAMES BARRY |
| Building: | CO. KERRY, KENMARE, BRIDGE (OLD) |
| Date: | 1840-41 |
| Nature: | 'Mr Barry' designed central tower (identified by Brendan O'Donoghue as JBF). |
| Refs: | www.kenmare.com/history |