What is recorded here

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.

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