What is recorded here
Water pump in Doonbeg is dressed in fancy bands and fluting, right up to its pointed cap, then out comes the cow’s tail handle. There’s always one at the big dinner who gives the family’s farming origins away.
Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1870, comprising cylindrical shaft with banding, set into metal plate and in turn set into concrete platform with rendered boundary wall. Fluted neck to pump, with moulded base, fluted neck to pump, fluted spout with bucket grip, fluted domed cap with pointed finial, and cow's tail pumping arm.
This intact rural water pump provided communal water supply before the era of mains supply. It has fine cast features typical of this element of street furniture and is well maintained.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30405701
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