Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. CORK, BALLINHASSIG, CHETWYND VIADUCT

Name: LEAHY, EDMUND
Building: CO. CORK, BALLINHASSIG, CHETWYND VIADUCT
Date: 1845p
Nature: Viaduct 'on a novel construction' proposed by 'Mssrs. Leahy' consistingof 3 equal spans of 240 ft each with stone piers 'in the Doric style'; 'there is neither a mortice and tenon joint, or a spike or nail in the entire structure, nor will there be any necessity of centering for its erection'. First stone laid, 18(?) Dec 1845.
Refs: B 3, 26 Apr 1845, 201;  Cork Constitution, 25 Dec 1845 (information from Roger Herlihy, Cork, Jul 2011).

Name: NIXON, CHARLES #
Building: CO. CORK, BALLINHASSIG, CHETWYND VIADUCT
Date: 1851
Nature: Cast iron construction. 4 spans of 110ft each. Opened 1851. Constructed by Fox Henderson & Co.
Refs: B 9, 18 Jan,31 May 1851, 46,346; R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998), 258-9(illus.)

Name: KLASEN, PETER JOSEPH
Building: CO. CORK, BALLINHASSIG, CHETWYND VIADUCT
Date: ?
Nature: PJK exhibits model of his design for lattice viaduct consisting of two spans of 240 ft each, supported by pier in centre at Dublin Industrial Exhibition, 1853.
Refs: Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 16 (Jul 1853), 272.