Water pump in Summerhill, County Meath

What is recorded here

Water pump in Summerhill has a fluted neck, decorative bands and a finial, which is fierce dressy for someone whose entire conversation is water. You’d feel obliged to introduce your bucket: “This is the good one. The other couldn’t make it.”

Cast-iron water pump, erected c.1870, with banded shaft, fluted neck, cap, finial and spout, and curved pumping handle.

The decorative detailing, such as the banding and fluting, provide artistic detailing to this functional water pump. Water pumps played an important social and functional role from the mid nineteenth century onward, providing a communal water source in the village.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 14333007

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