Sir John Macneill of Mount Pleasant Dundalk

1. Sir John Macneillof Mount PleasantDundalk

2. Sir John MacneillArchitect and Engineer

3. Sir John MacneillofMount PleasantEngineer, Inventor and Architect

4. Sir John Macneill

5. Early life • 1793: Born 5th May • 1811: Commissioned in Louth Militia 29th April • 1816 :Militia disbanded

6. Working as an engineer • 1816:Started work on roads, bridges,drainage and surveying in Dundalk area • 1819: February 22nd Iron Road Roller nearly ready • 1819: March, Road roller working well • 1820: Bridges-stone or iron?

7. The early 1820’s • 1822:Map of the Lower Barony- scale 8 inches to the mile • 1822c Married Isabella Mercer • “never was qualified or adapted either for Mercantile or farming business” • 1823:Lithography • 1823:December-Writes to Foster from Galway where he is working for Nimmo

8. Move to England • 1826 Did a survey of the River Boyne at Drogheda for Nimmo. • 1826 Joined Thomas Telford in December • 1827 Elected an associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers, proposed by Telford, Cubitt and Farmer • 1828 Development of Pirameter

9. London-Holyhead Road

10. London -Holyhead Road

11. England, Scotland and Ireland1831-1840 • Evidence to Select Committee on Holyhead and Liverpool Road • Evidence to Select Committee on Steam Carriages • Sir Henry Parnell’s Treatise on Roads • Tables on Earthwork Calculations published

12. Highgate Archway Road

15. Highgate Tunnel

16. Steam Omnibus

17. Earthwork Tables

18. 1833 Edition 1846 Edition

19. Instrument for lines of slope

20. England, Scotland and Ireland1831-1840 • In 1833 and 1834 he made Canal boat experiments in Scotland • Telford died in 1834 and left Macneill £400 and his notebook • Macneill’s son Telford was born in the same year.

21. Slammannan Bridge

23. Cork and Cove Railway(1837)

24. Proposed Route

25. Actual route(1859-1862)

26. Dublin and Drogheda Railway • 1835 Thomas Brodigan of Pilton House suggested a railway from Dublin to Drogheda • 1836 First meting of Parliamentary Committee on bill • Bill received Royal Assent on 13 August • Government set up Railway Commission on 26 August

27. Dublin and Drogheda Railway • Charles Vignolles surveyed the south and J.B. Macneill surveyed the north • On July 13 1838 the Commissioners reprted and recommended the internal route via Navan! • The Government did nothing and Daniel O’Connell piloted a bill through Parliament • Macneill appointed Chief Engineer in 1840

28. Iron Lattice Bridge

29. Malahide Timber Vidauct

30. The Boyne Viaduct

31. Viaduct Test

32. Boyne Viaduct

35. Bindon Blood Stoney

36. Harbour Drogheda

37. James Barton

38. Viaduct(from Howden)

39. The Boyne Viaduct

40. Viaduct1932

41. Travelling Gantry

46. Sir John as architect • Mount Pleasant • Flax Works • Portadown Station • Carlow Station • Egyptian Arch • Craigmore Viaduct

47. Mount Pleasant

48. Mount Pleasant

49. Flax Mill

50. Portadown Station