Monuments and Bridges
Deerpark Bridge, Shane's Castle Estate. Co. Antrim
Client: The Shane’s Castle Estate
The Shane’s Castle Estate is the custodian of the two largest privately owned rubble masonry bridges in Northern Ireland. Deerpark Bridge, a Grade B1 Listed structure is a 70m seven-arched masonry bridge carrying an estate road over the River Maine. The precise date of construction is unknown but it appears on the OS map of 1829 & 32, and is probably of late 18th century; the architect is unknown.
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Cashel Town Walls, Co. Tipperary
Client: Cashel Town Council
Alastair Coey Architects was commissioned in 2007 by Cashel Town Council with support from The Heritage Council to prepare a Conservation and Management Plan for Cashel Town Walls. The town was founded below the Rock of Cashel, one of the premier sites of political and religious significance in Ireland, stretching back to the dawn of recorded history.
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New Ross Town Walls, Co. Wexford
Client: Wexford County Council
Alastair Coey Architects was commissioned in 2007 by Wexford County Council with support from The Heritage Council to prepare a Conservation and Management Plan for New Ross Town Walls. The area enclosed by the town walls of New Ross is one of the largest in Ireland, enclosing a well preserved medieval street layout.
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Wexford Town Walls, Co. Wexford
Client: Wexford County Council
Alastair Coey Architects was appointed in August 2007 by Wexford Borough Council, with support from The Heritage Council, to prepare a Conservation and Management Plan for Wexford Town Walls. Wexford, like Derry, is a member of the Irish Walled Towns Network. The physical research carried out in preparation of both documents revealed that much more of the original medieval walls survive than originally had been anticipated.
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Dunmore Bridge, Shane's Castle Estate
Client: The Shane’s Castle Estate
The Dunmore Bridge was built by the O'neill family of Shane's Castle in 1801 to carry an estate road over the River Maine. The 100m long Grade B1 listed structure is one of the largest bridges in private ownership in Northern Ireland. The three principal arches spanning the river are dressed with sandstone voussoirs and triangular cutwaters with copings dressed with rhyloite.
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Temple Manor, Kent, England
Client: English Heritage
Temple Manor, a Scheduled Ancient Monument, is also a Grade 1 listed Thirteenth Century manorial building constructed by the Templars to provide accommodation for high-status travelling members of the order. The building was extended in the Seventeenth century by the addition of brick structures. The building consists of a rectangular two-storey stone structure, orientated roughly east-west, built from ragstone and flint and carrying a gabled roof. There are brick extensions at the east and west end of the stone building.
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Fort Brockhurst, Hampshire, England
Client: English Heritage
Fort Brockhurst, a Scheduled Ancient Monument, is a well-preserved artillery fortification of 1858-62, which formed part of the Gosport Advanced Line of defence of the royal navy dockyards at Portsmouth. In plan Fort Brockhurst is a six-sided polygon detached bastion, with an obtuse salient designed to protect the long faces of the fort against enfilade fire. Surrounding the fort is a wet moat; rising from this is an earthwork rampart fronted by a low brick revetment.
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Fort Cumberland, Hampshire, England
Client: English Heritage
Fort Cumberland, a Scheduled Ancient Monument, is a well-preserved listed Napoleonic bastioned fort protecting vulnerable coastland to the east of Portsmouth, incorporating numerous Grade II* listed structures from a mid-eighteenth century predecessor, with nineteenth century and later alterations and additional buildings.
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Hurst Castle, Hampshire, England
Client: English Heritage
Hurst Castle, a Scheduled Ancient Monument, is a coastal artillery fortress built by Henry VIII between 1541 and 1544, the defences of which were extended and updated in the 1860s and 1870s. Active military use came to an end only after the Second World War. The castle retains evidence of its original use and subsequent adaptation. Its dramatic location, chosen because of its strategic importance, renders the castle subject to hostile environmental conditions.
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North Leigh Roman Villa, Oxfordshire, England
Client: English Heritage
North Leigh, Scheduled Ancient Monument, comprises the ruined remains of a multi-phase courtyard Roman villa, with an exposed mosaic floor and two structures dating from the early nineteenth century.
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