Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SARAH BRIDGE

Name: SHAW, ROBERT
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SARAH BRIDGE
Date: 1790ca
Nature: Proposal for single-span stone bridge.
Refs: Plan and elevation, inscribed: 'Robt Shaw invt et del...Plan and elevation of a bridge with one semi-elliptical Arch intended to be built over the River Liffey at Island Bridge' offered for sale by D. & R. Blissett, London, Apr 2010.

Name: TURNSTALL, -
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SARAH BRIDGE
Date: 1790ca
Nature: 2 alternative proposals by 'Turnstall' for a cast iron bridge - one a solid web bridge and the other a skeletal bridge.
Refs: 2 plans and elevations, one inscribed:'Design for a bridge to be built in place of that called Island Bridge' and, in top left corner, 'Turnstall', offered for sale by D. & R. Blissett, London, Apr 2010 (photocopies of designs in Jones File T64A).

Name: STEVENS, ALEXANDER #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, SARAH BRIDGE
Date: 1791-93
Nature: Single elliptical arch designed by AS for Dublin Paving Commissioners.
Refs: G.N. Wright, Historical Guide to Dublin (2nd ed., 1821), 253; Howard Colvin, A Biographical dictionary of British architects 1600-1840 (4th edn., 2008),984. citing Edinburgh Encyclopaedia IV (1830), 487;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 692,698.