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. |