Selected: CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, TOWN BRIDGE
| Name: | LONG, JOHN [2] |
| Building: | CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, TOWN BRIDGE |
| Date: | 1841-44 |
| Nature: | New bridge replacing one of 1568; 'progressing wondrously' by Nov. 1841. JL resident engineer, under Thomas Rhodes. Contractor: John McMahon. |
| Refs: | Inscription on bridge (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal 4 (Nov, 1841), 402; M. Lenihan, Limerick; its history and antiquities (1866), 98; for description of the bridge see R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998), 68-69 |
| Name: | RHODES, THOMAS # |
| Building: | CO. WESTMEATH, ATHLONE, TOWN BRIDGE |
| Date: | 1841-44 |
| Nature: | TR principal engineer. Resident engineer: John Long. Contractor: John McMahon. Opened 9 November 1844. For Shannon Commissioners. |
| Refs: | Inscription on bridge (IAA, Edward McParland files, Acc.2008/44); B 2, 23 Nov 1844, 587; TICEI 1 (1844-45), 79; R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998), 68-69(illus.) |