Vent pipe in Athlone and Bigmeadow, County Westmeath

What is recorded here

Freestanding cast-iron vent pipe, erected c.1885, consisting of cast-iron cylindrical shaft with splayed saw tooth-profiled parapet over fluted cast-iron base section. Located at junction in road to immediate south of rubble limestone boundary wall.

This vent pipe, which is now disused, is a physical reminder of the development of public services and utilities in the late nineteenth-century in Athlone. The 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.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 15000399

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Photo credits

National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
Graham Horn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Pat Byrne, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
Nigel Thompson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Sgbrito at Portuguese Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Christophe Krief, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Peter Gerken, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
Engraving by Johannes Tangena. Leyden: Johannes Tangena, Print en Bockverkooper 1691., Wikimedia Commons · Public domain