What is recorded here
Water pump in Wilkinstown was a crossroads gathering place, with leaves decorating its spout. Very suitable: you’d arrive for water, hear one small thing about a neighbour, and by the time you got home it had branches.
Cast-iron water pump, erected c.1870, with angled pumping handle. Fluted neck and cap with pointed finial. Foliate decoration to spout. Set in recess with limestone walls. Now padded to shaft.
This water pump has interesting design details such as the fluting and the foliated motif, which enhance this functional object. Located near a crossroads, is was once a place of social gathering where people went to draw water.
From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 14314009
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