Water pump in Doohamlat, County Monaghan

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Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1870. Round-plan, with banded shaft, fluted domed cap and pointed finial. Ram's head bucket grip and fluting to spout, and curved cow's tail handle. Set on concrete base covering well, protected by recent railings to east, south and west with roughcast rendered square-plan…

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This attractive water pump exhibits artistic detailing in its design, which serves to enliven this otherwise functional object. Water pumps such as this played an important social and functional role in nineteenth and twentieth-century Ireland, providing a communal water source for the locality as well as a popular social gathering place. Centrally located within the village of Doohamlet, to the east of All Saints Catholic Church, this water pump contributes to the nineteenth-century character of this rural village.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 41401908

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Fintan McTiernan / Monaghan GAA official Flickr, www.flickr.com
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Drumhowan GAA club; individual photographer not named, drumhowan.gaa.ie
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