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Water pump in Beagh Beg

Water pump
Water pump in Beagh Beg
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Water pump in Beagh Beg has a ram’s head, a cow’s tail and a stile beside it. The designer seems to have ordered a small farm, received it in the wrong pieces, and decided nobody in Galway would notice.

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Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1870, having banded cylindrical shaft, fluted neck, ram's head bucket grip, fluted domed top with pointed finial and cow's tail pumping arm. Rendered wall to rear and sides. Stile in rendered wall to side of well enclosure.
This is a good example of the standard water pump design prevalent in the late nineteenth century. It is of social history and technical interest, having provided water to the district for perhaps a century.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30404204

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Nigel Thompson, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Mac McCarron, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0; Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Enda O Flaherty, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; The original uploader was Dppowell at English Wikipedia ., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.5; Willow, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5

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