Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, GREENE'S BRIDGE

Name: VALLANCEY, CHARLES
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, GREENE'S BRIDGE
Date: 1763
Nature: CV erects temporary bridges to replace John's Bridge and Green's Bridge after they were broken down byh floods of 1763.
Refs: Monica Nevin, 'General Charles Vallancey 1725-1812', JRSAI 23 (1993), 23

Name: SMITH, GEORGE [1]
Building: CO. KILKENNY, KILKENNY, GREENE'S BRIDGE
Date: 1763P
Nature: New 5-arched bridge over River Nore, replacing one swept away by floods of 1863. Cost of John's Bridge and Greene's Bridge: £5,407.
Refs: William Tighe, Statistical Observations relative to the County of Kilkenny (1802), 563; S. Lewis, A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), II, 110; Peter Smithwick, 'Georgian Kilkenny', BIGS 6, no. 4 (Oct-Dec 1963), 93