Water pump in Lusk, County Dublin

What is recorded here

Water pump in Lusk has an acorn handgrip and the council's emblem. Somewhere, surely, a squirrel has spent years trying to shift it, convinced the council wouldn't put its name on a nut unless it was worth stealing.

Freestanding cast-iron "cow tail" waterpump, c.1925, on a square plan with panelled shaft on panelled pedestal having acorn finial-topped fluted capping. Now disused. Street fronted. NOTE: The waterpump, supplied by Tonge and Taggart (established 1869) of Dublin and distinguished by an acorn finial handgrip, carries the emblem of Balrothery Rural District Council (established 1898; abolished 1925) and the "Déanta I nÉirinn" emblem created (1907) by the Irish Industrial Development Association and the first trademark registered in Ireland under the Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) Act, 1927.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 11323011

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