RAMSAY, - *

Bridge builder, active in Cos. Tyrone and Donegal in 1755. Nathaniel Nisbett, agent to the Earl of Abercorn, when he forwarded Ramsay's plans for bridges across the River Derg at Drumclamph and Scarvaghern(1) described him to the earl as 'a plain man, no great drawer of plans or estimates' whose 'skill consists in practice'. Ramsay had apparently built the bridge at Castlefinn, Co. Donegal.(2) His plans for Lifford bridge, which he undertook to build in 1755, were criticized by MICHAEL PRIESTLEY. MICHAEL PRIESTLEY.

References

All information in this entry is from two letters from Nathaniel Nisbett to the Earl of Abercorn, dated 9 May and 1 Jun 1755, in John H. Gebbie, ed., The Abercorn Letters (1972), 47,48.

(1) These were not built by 1761, see Gebbie, op. cit., 71-72.
(2) But see A. Day & P. McWilliams, eds., Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland: Parishes of Donegal, II 1997), 30.

2 work entries listed in chronological order for RAMSAY, - *

Sort by date | Sort alphabetically

Building:	CO. DONEGAL, LIFFORD, BRIDGE
Date:	1755
Nature:	To be built. R's plans criticized by Michael Priestley.
Refs:	John H. Gebbie, ed., The Abercorn Letters (1972), 47

Building:	CO. DONEGAL, CASTLEFINN, BRIDGE
Date:	1755a
Nature:	Built by R.
Refs:	John H. Gebbie, ed., The Abercorn Letters (1972), 47 (but see A. Day & P. McWilliams, eds., Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland: Parishes of Donegal, II 1997), 30, which says built by 'Mr Mason')