Dictionary of Irish Architects 1720 - 1940

Selected: CO. WATERFORD, BALLINACOURTY (DUNGARVAN), WYSE'S PIER

Name: UNKNOWN ARCHITECT
Building: CO. WATERFORD, BALLINACOURTY (DUNGARVAN), WYSE'S PIER
Date:
Nature: New pier. Contractors:  David Power (died), Alexander Deane.
Refs: Letters, specifications, reports &c. in NA, OPW 8/367/1-4.

Name: NIMMO, ALEXANDER [1]#
Building: CO. WATERFORD, BALLINACOURTY (DUNGARVAN), WYSE'S PIER
Date: 1824-25
Nature: New pier.  Contractors: David Power (died) and Alexander Deane. 'At Ballinacourty...the property of T. Wyse, Esq., MP, a pier for the protection of fishing boats was erected in 1832, partly by subscription and partly by a grant from the late Fishery Board.' (Lewis). Contractors: White and Coen.
Refs: Documentation, 1823-1846, including undated plan by Alexander Nimmo  in National Archives, OPW8/17, 8/367/1-4;  Samuel Lewis, A Topographical dictionary of Ireland (1837), I, 579;  Noel P. Wilkins, Alexander Nimmo, Master Engineer, 1783-1832: public works and civil surveys (Irish Academic Press, 2009), 370.



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