1790 – Poulaphouca Bridge, Co. Wicklow
Once this waterfall on the Liffey was once one of the best known in the country, but was reduced to a trickle when the hydroelectric scheme was built in the 1940’s.
Once this waterfall on the Liffey was once one of the best known in the country, but was reduced to a trickle when the hydroelectric scheme was built in the 1940’s.
Built between 1791 and 1793 as a single 32-metre span arch bridge. Originally named after Sarah, Countess of Westmoreland, wife of the then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
Constructed by Emanuel Coxe, of Boston, from American oak. Begun in April, 1793, and was opened in May,
A wooden bascule bridge constructed to continue Brunswick Street, now Pearse Street over the Grand Canal at their docks near Ringsend.
In 1789 Dublin Corporation commissioned the Royal Canal and a harbour built on Constitution Hill, connected to the main canal at Phibsboro by a spur.
Originally designed and built by James Gandon, O’Connell Bridge was built in 1794-98 and named after the then Viceroy – Lord Carlisle.
Designed by George Knowles, architect of Dublin’s Fr. Mathew and O’Donovan Rossa Bridges, and built in 1814 in collaboration with James Savage to replace several bridges which were carried away by floods.
Previously known as the Jail Bridge, as the city jail was on the site of where the Cathedral now is.
Single-arch limestone cut-stone road bridge over river, built 1824 as a Famine relief project, with lancet arch and parapet walls having mock loopholes and coat-of-arms.
Prior to the bridge’s completion in 1826 the island had no connection to the mainland and all movement to and from Anglesey was by ferry.