Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. GALWAY, SLYNE HEAD, LIGHTHOUSES

Name: HALPIN, GEORGE [1]
Building: CO. GALWAY, SLYNE HEAD, LIGHTHOUSES
Date: 1832-1836
Nature: Light first exhbited 10 Oct 1836. Copper domes carried out by John Smith, coppersmith. (South lighthouse dismantled and north lighthouse improved, 1896).
Refs: Bill Long, Bright light, white water (1993), 147-8;  Life of William Douglass, M.Inst.C.E. formerly engineer-in-chief to the Commissioners of Irish Lights by the author of the 'Life of Sir James Nicholas Douglass [Thomas Williams]' (Privately published, 1923), on-line version at http://pharology.eu/resources/Douglass.pdf