What is recorded here

Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1885, comprising banded cylindrical shaft with fluted head having fluted spout with floral detail, and a ‘cow tail’ curvilinear handle. Original head now removed and replaced by a modern dome finial. Set on concrete platform adjacent to modern house. Located to the southwest of Loughanavally.

A typical late nineteenth-century water pump, of a standard design encountered throughout rural Westmeath. Water pumps played an important social role in the late nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries by providing a communal water source before the development of mains water supply. This cast-iron pump now serves as an attractive piece of street furniture, aesthetically enhancing the rural landscape to the southwest of Loughanavally.

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