- Reference Code: IE LA WW
- Extent: 6 Items
Scope and Content
Limerick Waterworks maps (1886 - c. 1899). Water supply plans for Limerick.
Subjects
Waterworks, Limerick, Water Supply, Water, Local Government
Collection Content
The Limerick Waterworks Act of 1883 provided for the purchase of the Limerick Waterworks Company by the Corporation. The Corporation duly purchased the complete network for providing a water supply to the city, and began levying a new rate, called the water rate (or sometimes the water rent), to pay for the workings of same. The Corporation’s purchase of the waterworks company was broadly welcomed, as it had followed a long period of criticism of the quality of the water provided by the private company throughout the 1870s and 1880s.
The Corporation took control of the property of the old company, which comprised a house, land and waterworks at Clareville, house lands and reservoir at Newcastle, two houses, lands, engine house and works at Rhebogue, house, lands and reservoir on the Ennis Road, and house land and reservoir in Garryowen.
PDF File: L/WW/8/1. October 1886
Limerick Water Supply, Plans and Sections drawn by James J. F Browne and Robert Fogerty (engineers) and Richard J. Cruise (consulting engineer). Plans consist of two printed sheets. Sheet number 1 is map County of Limerick, 6 inches to one mile, indicating location of water pipe, which is divided into four sections. Sheet number two shows cross section of each of four sections. Section number one shows enlarged section of intake channel and outfall of head works; section number two shows line of pipes to reservoir, section number three shows line of pipes from reservoir, and section number four shows line of pipes from road to city.
PDF File: L/WW/8/2. c.1886
Plan of Limerick Water Supply showing water pipes from the North Strand reservoir to the Leap of Doonass. Plans also show the River Shannon, Garryowen reservoir, Rebogue works, Newcastle reservoir, Mulkear bridge, and Clareville works.
PDF File: L/WW/8/5. c.1899
Plan of Limerick Waterworks, Rhebogue submitted by W.E. Corbett, city surveyor showing proposed new engine and boiler house, and longitudal and cross sections of the filtered water tank. Scale is 20 feet: 1 inch.
PDF File: L/WW/9/1. November 1906
Drawing prepared by J.J Peacock (city engineer) showing proposed Auxiliary Works at Clareville. Drawings show proposed position of Engine House, and also the filter beds, clear water tanks, turbine house, gas engines and pumps, suction gas pumps and intake channel from River Shannon.
PDF File: L/WW/10/2. 16 October 1928
File consisting of plans to extend the engineer’s house at Clareville Water Works and additions to the cottage at the Garryowen reservoir. Colour plan for addition to cottage at Garryowen reservoir showing front, side and rear elevation, ground plan, and roof plan (scale 4 feet to one inch). Includes plan for extension of house at Clareville waterworks showing front, side, and end elevation, ground plan, and roof plan, (scale 4 feet to one inch). Plans drawn by J.J Peacocke, city surveyor.
PDF File: L/WW/11/3. c. 1928
Plans submitted by Paterson Engineering Company Limited for a Rapid Gravity Filtration Plant for Clareville Waterworks. Plans show front elevations of the plant.