Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, MALAHIDE, VIADUCT (1840S)

Name: MACNEILL, JOHN BENJAMIN (SIR)
Building: CO. DUBLIN, MALAHIDE, VIADUCT (1840S)
Date: 1840s
Nature: Timber viaduct with masonry abutments for Dublin & Drogheda Railway Co., therefore presumably designed by Sir John Macneill. Embankments in place by 1843.  Drawn by Frederick Brodie in 1847. Replaced in 1860.
Refs: Model in IAA, Acc. 2009/128;  drawing in Frederick Brodie notebook, 1847, in PRO (Kew), RAIL 1057/3476 (part of drawing repr. in Oliver Doyle, 'Malahide - 1',  Journal of the Irish Railway Record Society  142, 430-431);  Oliver Doyle, 'Malahide - 2',  Journal of the Irish Railway Record Society 143, 462-3,492-3(illus.).