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Water pump in Tedavnet

Water pump
Water pump in Tedavnet
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Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1870, having banded shaft, fluted domed cap with pointed finial, ram's head bucket grip and fluting to spout and having curved cow's tail handle terminating in rounded grip. Set on concrete base, with rubble stone wall and steel gate…

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Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1870, having banded shaft, fluted domed cap with pointed finial, ram's head bucket grip and fluting to spout and having curved cow's tail handle terminating in rounded grip. Set on concrete base, with rubble stone wall and steel gate surrounding.
This 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. Centrally located at a main crossroads in Tedavnet, this attractive and well maintained water pump forms an interesting part of the streetscape.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 41400619

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  • Kenneth Allen, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Colin Mc Mahon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
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  • Kenneth Allen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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  • Brian Lenehan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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