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vent pipe — Killavally

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vent pipe — Killavally
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Overview

vent pipe — Killavally is recorded as vent pipe in Westmeath. The saved date range is 1870 to 1910. Its recorded grade or rating is Regional. The saved evidence fixes the building and its protected record while keeping unknown builders, people and changes open.

Why it was built

The record classifies vent pipe — Killavally as vent pipe. It does not safely state the first owner's purpose beyond that use, so this first account does not borrow a story from a namesake.

People and work

No architect, builder, owner, worker or resident is named in the saved wording. Those people remain unknown until the linked official record or another source identifies them.

How it changed

The saved wording does not establish particular rebuilding, extensions, damage or changes of use. No visible feature is assigned a date without supporting evidence.

What survives

The public record still identifies the place as vent pipe. Its saved point marks the building or centre of its recorded area, but the stock wording does not provide a room-by-room condition report.

Why it mattered

vent pipe — Killavally matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This freestanding vent pipe is of significance due to the role it played in the sewage system developed in Tyrrellspass the late nineteenth-century. This vent pipe now forms a subtle feature in the streetscape and is of some design merit, having been conceived as an aesthetic as well as functional item of street furniture. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.

History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.

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