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.). |