What is recorded here

Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1880, comprising banded cylindrical shaft with fluted head having fluted spout, straight handle, and fluted cap with pointed finial. Concrete trough to front. Set on platform at roadside close to crossroads, and having concrete walls to rear and sides.

This is a typical late nineteenth-century water pump, of a standard design that is encountered throughout rural Galway. Water pumps played an important social role in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by providing a communal water source before the development of mains water supply. Frequently, as in this case, water pumps were located at or near road junctions.

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