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Vent pipe in Freshford Lots

Vent pipe
Vent pipe in Freshford Lots
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Vent pipe in Freshford Lots came from Drogheda Ironworks with a fluted base, a decorated collar and teeth round the top. You’d love to have heard the sales pitch: ‘And for sixpence more, we can make the rest of the street feel underdressed.’

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Freestanding cast-iron vent pipe, c.1900, with fluted cylindrical pedestal having stringcourse, fluted frieze supporting moulded necking, and cylindrical shaft having saw tooth-profiled parapet. Road fronted on concrete footpath.
Making a pleasing, if subtle impression in the streetscape a vent pipe supplied by the Drogheda Ironworks foundry represents an important artefact of early mass-produced cast-iron ware. However, while refined detailing betrays the concerns with aesthetic effects the vent pipe remains of primary importance for the associations with the development of a sewage system in Freshford in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12305036

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