Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, ATHLUNKARD BRIDGE

Name: PAIN, JAMES
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, ATHLUNKARD BRIDGE
Date: 1826-1830
Nature: New 5-arch bridge across Shannon. JP architect and contractor, with G.R. Pain. Cost: £7,000.
Refs: Inscription on plaque on bridge; 1st Annual Report of Commissioners of Public Works (Ireland) (1833), 5;  Limerick Chronicle, 19 Apr 1834, cited in David Lee & Debbie Jacobs, James Pain, architect (Limerick Civic Trust, 2005), 273-274(illus.); M. Lenihan, Limerick; its history and antiquities (1866), 475-6;  APSD VI, P,7;  R.C. Cox & M.H. Gould, Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland (1998), 252-253.

Name: NIMMO, ALEXANDER [1]#
Building: CO. LIMERICK, LIMERICK, ATHLUNKARD BRIDGE
Date: 1826a
Nature: Proposed chain suspension bridge.  Not executed.
Refs: Noel P. Wilkins, Alexander Nimmo, Master Engineer, 1783-1832: public works and civil surveys (Irish Academic Press, 2009), 229-30(illus.).