Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CARLISLE BRIDGE (NEW)

Name: KELLY, THOMAS ANTHONY
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CARLISLE BRIDGE (NEW)
Date: 1862
Nature: Competition entrant.
Refs: DB 4, 15 Sep 1862, 237

Name: HASSARD, RICHARD
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CARLISLE BRIDGE (NEW)
Date: 1862
Nature: Competition entrant.
Refs: DB 4, 1 Sep 1862, 216

Name: BARRINGTON, WILLIAM [2]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CARLISLE BRIDGE (NEW)
Date: 1862
Nature: Competition entrant.
Refs: DB 4, 1 Sep 1862, 216

Name: BOULGER, JAMES
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CARLISLE BRIDGE (NEW)
Date: 1862
Nature: Competition entrant.
Refs: DB 4, 15 Sep 1862, 237

Name: LYNN, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CARLISLE BRIDGE (NEW)
Date: 1862
Nature: Competition entrant (Motto: In Memoriam); 'a very elaborate and beautiful design…unfortunately excluded from the competition owing to non compliance with the rules…a magnificent stone bridge, profusely ornamented, and exhibiting in the centre a statue of the Prince Consort'.
Refs: 2 perspective views in Ulster Museum, nos. 2373,2473, see H. Dixon, William Henry Lynn (Ulster Museum, 1878), nos. 15 & 16 and Martyn Anglesea, 'The Lynn Brothers, architect and sculptor', Irish Arts Review Yearbook 1989-90, 257(illus.); other drawings in RIBA drawings collection, see Jill Lever, ed., Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects L-N (1973), 52; DB 4, 1 Aug,15 Sep 1862, 189,243(illus.); 6, 1 Apr 1864, 61; RHA 1866, nos. 523,528; IB 12, 1 Jan,1 Jul 1870, 3,149; 18, 15 Jun 1876, 171

Name: NEVILLE, JOHN [2]
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CARLISLE BRIDGE (NEW)
Date: 1862
Nature: Competition entrant.
Refs: Brendan O'Donoghue, The Irish County Surveyors 1834-1944 (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007),  266.

Name: PAGE, GEORGE GORDON #
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CARLISLE BRIDGE (NEW)
Date: 1862-64
Nature: Competition winner, in collaboration with Richard Turner, but design executed to designs of Lanyon, Lynn & Lanyon, placed 2nd.
Refs: DB 4, 15 Aug 1862, 208,209(illus.),212; 6, 1 Apr 1864, 54; 7, 15 Jun 1865, 147; IB 12, 1 Jun,1 Jul,1 Sep 1870, 124,127,159-60,209; B 22, 26 Mar 1864, 228; design exh. RA. 1864, no. 805; 'Prize design' by RT exh. Dublin International Exhibition of Art & Manufactures, 1865, no. 140 (IALE, III, 722)

Name: TURNER, RICHARD *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CARLISLE BRIDGE (NEW)
Date: 1862-64
Nature: Competition winner, in collaboration with George Gordon Page, but design executed to designs of Lanyon, Lynn & Lanyon, placed 2nd.
Refs: DB 4, 15 Aug 1862, 208,209(illus.),212; 6, 1 Apr 1864, 54; 7, 15 Jun 1865, 147; IB 12, 1 Jun,1 Jul,1 Sep 1870, 124,127,159-60,209; B 22, 26 Mar 1864, 228; design exh. RA. 1864, no. 805; 'Prize design' by RT exh. Dublin International Exhibition of Art & Manufactures, 1865, no. 140 (IALE, III, 722)

Name: LANYON, LYNN & LANYON
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CARLISLE BRIDGE (NEW)
Date: 1862-64;1870
Nature: Placed 2nd in competition for rebuilding but their design adopted. Decision to execute work taken in 1870. Contractor: Doherty.
Refs: DB 4, 15 Aug,15 Sep 1862, 213,232(illus.); B 22, 26 Mar 1864, 228; 28, 15 May,4 Jun 1870, 114,442; RHA 1866, nos. 523,528 (exh. under name of W.H. Lynn); IB 12, 15 May,1,15 Jun 1870, 114,124,137; 18, 15 Jun 1876, 171;  Irish Times, 26,31 May,7 Jun 1870.

Name: GEOGHEGAN, CHARLES
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CARLISLE BRIDGE (NEW)
Date: 1866
Nature: Proposals for widening and lowering.
Refs: Drawings in IAA, one dated in pencil 'Thursday 23rd 1866' Charles Geoghegan drawings, 80/32 B.1-6; model in IAA, Acc. 84/45 (this may be the model exh. at Maguire & Son's stall at the RDS Cattle Show, Apr 1869, and at the RHA 1869, no. 367); MS tender for executing work for £29,000 from Courtney Stephens & Co., 8 May 1866, in IAA, RP.D.72/10; MS list of plans in stable of CG, 2 Oct 1896, in possession of Joe macEochagáin, 2006 (photocopy in IAA, RP.B.48 (1-3))Irish Times, 3 Jul 1868;  IB 12, 1 Jan,15 Mar,1 Apr 1870, 3,59,69(illus.);  Freeman's Journal, 17 Jul 1875;  B 26, 4 Jul 1868, 493; 28, 26 Mar,4 Jun 1870, 253,442; 29, 11 Feb 1871, 112

Name: TURNER, THOMAS
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CARLISLE BRIDGE (NEW)
Date: 1875
Nature: Design for improvement (i.e. rebuilding on present piers) of same adopted by City Council (John Lanyon and Charles Geoghegan also submitted proposals)
Refs: Letter to editor from TT, 4 Sep 1875, re same published in Irish Times, 6 Sep 1875.m>IB 17, 1,15 Sep 1875, 243,289; 18, 1 Jan 1876, 3; RHA 1876, no. 262.

Name: GEOGHEGAN, CHARLES
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CARLISLE BRIDGE (NEW)
Date: 1875
Nature: CG exhibits model of proposal for same at Chamber of Commerce.
Refs: Irish Builder, 25 Aug 1875.

Name: LYNN, WILLIAM HENRY
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CARLISLE BRIDGE (NEW)
Date: 1875
Nature: WHL submits proposal for new bridge, Aug 1875.
Refs: Letter from WHL to Town Clerk, 23 Aug 1875, published in Irish Times, 6 Sep 1875 and correction, 7 Sep 1875, in Irish Times, 8 Sep 1875.

Name: HARRISON, CHARLES WILLIAM *
Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, CARLISLE BRIDGE (NEW)
Date: 1879a
Nature: Carved keystones for new bridge using Edward Smyth's keystones for original bridge as models.
Refs: IB 21, 15 Mar 1879, 95; 22, 15 Aug 1880, 238; H.G. Leask, 'Some less known works of Edward Smyth, sculptor', JRSAI 80 (1950), 76;  Christine Casey, The Buildings of Ireland: Dublin (2005), 694.