What is recorded here
Water pump in Drumod More offered water with a fluted neck, a fancy spout and a pointed hat. You’d brace yourself for a wine list. ‘We have the local water, sir. It goes beautifully with carrying it home yourself.’
Cast-iron water pump, erected c.1870, comprising cylindrical shaft with raised horizontal banding, fluted upper section and cap with pointed finial, spout and cow's tail pumping arm.
This water pump exhibits artistic detailing in its design, with its elegantly-curved handle and fluted neck, cap and spout. It is a notable feature on the roadside in Dromod. Water pumps played an important social and functional role in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, by a providing communal water source.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 30818019
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