1861 – St. Patrick’s Bridge, Cork
Architect: Sir John Benson
Fine masonry bridge with three elliptical archies to designs by engineer-architect Sir John Benson. It appears that he provided three designs for the site: one iron swivel;
Fine masonry bridge with three elliptical archies to designs by engineer-architect Sir John Benson. It appears that he provided three designs for the site: one iron swivel;
Opened St. Patrick’s Day 1864, replacing an earlier bridge, this bridge was demolished and replaced in 1961 by Griffith’s Bridge.
The old Anglesea Bridge, built in the 1830s, could not cope with the volume of traffic using the bridge by the 1870s.
Completed in 1926, in wrought iron with timber walkway, by the London based David Rowell &