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 |