Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HOWTH, HARBOUR

Name: TAYLOR, GEORGE [1]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HOWTH, HARBOUR
Date: 1807-08
Nature: GT employed on harbour works, 1807, but resigns, 1808.
Refs: Report from the Committee on Howth Harbour (1810)

Name: HUDDART, JOSEPH (CAPT.) #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HOWTH, HARBOUR
Date: 1808
Nature: Collaborates with John Rennie[1] on design for completion of har;bour.
Refs: See documentation in NA OPW8/HOW/48,49,100,152-155,158,177.

Name: RENNIE, JOHN [1]#
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HOWTH, HARBOUR
Date: 1808-1813
Nature: Rennie takes charge of work, originally designed by Captain George Taylor, after collapse of east pier. Responsible for construction of West Pier. Superintendent of works: John Aird.
Refs: Documentation, 1807-1822, in NA OPW8/HOW (OPW Howth Harbour Index); Report from the Commission on Howth Harbour (1810); Min.Proc.Inst.CE 4 (1845), 372; 7 (1848), 382,407; 18 (1858-59), 117; R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998), 25-28

Name: AIRD, JOHN #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, HOWTH, HARBOUR
Date: 1809-1816
Nature: JA resident engineer for completion of same to designs by JOHN RENNIE[1] and JOSEPH HUDDART.
Refs: See documentation in NA, OPW drawings collection, OPW8/HOW;  Dictionary of Irish Biography, ed. by James McGuire and James Quinn, 9 vols. (Cambridge University Press, 2009), I, 63.