What is recorded here
The Water pump in Dunamaggan West offers a cow-tail handle at a crossroads, which is a dangerous place to give a farmer ideas. Pull this tail and you get water; try the next one over the hedge and you get a much quicker journey home.
Freestanding cast-iron waterpump, c.1875, comprising banded cylindrical shaft with moulded necking supporting fluted cylindrical head having spout, curvilinear 'cow tail' handle, and fluted ogee domed capping on moulded course having finial. Now disused. Set back from line of road on a corner site at crossroads.
Forming an attractive, if subtle feature in the streetscape a waterpump represents an important artefact in early mass-produced cast-iron. Although of primary significance as a reminder of the mechanisms installed for the provision of water from a local source the various raised elements identify the equal emphasis placed on aesthetic aspirations.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 12403118
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