Overview
water tower — Tipperary is recorded as water tower in Tipperary. Detached octagonal-profile water tower on square-plan base, built c. 1880, to serve barracks. Conical roof, covering not distinguishable, with central spike finial.
Why it was built
The saved account records: Detached octagonal-profile water tower on square-plan base, built c. 1880, to serve barracks.
People and work
The saved account records: Conical roof, covering not distinguishable, with central spike finial.
How it changed
The saved account records: Coursed rock-faced limestone walls, having string course and corbels to octagonal upper walls, with battered base.
What survives
The saved account records: Situated within walls of former barracks.
Why it mattered
water tower — Tipperary matters for the exact reasons given in its official assessment, rather than merely because it is an old structure. The source records: This interesting and attractive water tower forms part of a group with the barracks walls. The use of rock-faced stone creates a textured surface, which compensates for the lack of openings in such a structure. This explains what the place adds to local life, the street or the surviving built history.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
Places near here
- Airmount House — Station Roadbuildingunder 0.1 miles
- Tipperary Union Workhousebuildingunder 0.1 miles
- barracks — Tipperarybuildingunder 0.1 miles
- Tipperary Railway Station — Station Roadbuildingunder 0.1 miles
- post box — Station Roadbuilding0.1 miles
- officer's house — Glenview Squarebuilding0.2 miles
- hospital/infirmary — Tipperarybuilding0.2 miles
- Abbey School — Collegelandmonument0.2 miles
- Abbey School — Abbey Streetbuilding0.2 miles
- Site of Abbey — Collegelandmonument0.2 miles
- creamery — Station Roadbuilding0.2 miles
- house — Bridge Streetbuilding0.3 miles
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