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Water tower in Balla

Water tower
Water tower in Balla
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Water tower in Balla has eight sides and four stages to hold water. Give an ordinary bucket that sort of promotion and it would stop speaking to the basin.

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Freestanding single-bay four-stage water tower, post-1946, on an octagonal plan. Set in redeveloped grounds.
An eye-catching water tower erected to a standardised design (cf. Oran Beg, County Galway; Mullatishaughlin, County Monaghan) representing an interesting component of the mid twentieth-century civil engineering heritage of County Mayo.

From the Buildings of Ireland (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) record 31309023

This does not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.

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Pictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Michael Deligan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0; The Carlisle Kid, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; JohnArmagh, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Maker named on the Wikimedia Commons picture page · Public domain; Paul Cowan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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