Vent pipe in Castlecomer, County Kilkenny

What is recorded here

Vent pipe in Castlecomer wears a spreading, pointed crown above the sewer. Other royal families would have invented a better account of where the money came from.

Freestanding cast-iron vent pipe, c.1900, comprising profiled pedestal with moulded bands, and cylindrical shaft over having splayed saw tooth-profiled parapet. Road fronted on concrete footpath.

A vent pipe of significance for the associations with a sewage system developed in Castlecomer in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century. Raised elements together with a profiled parapet indicate the equal importance placed on aesthetic effects as well as functionality.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12301020

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