Survey Data
Reg No
15402428
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Social, Technical
Original Use
Water pump
Date
1870 - 1900
Coordinates
228832, 245161
Date Recorded
18/11/2004
Date Updated
--/--/--
Description
Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1885, comprising banded cylindrical shaft with fluted head having fluted spout with floral detail, and a ‘cow tail’ curvilinear handle. Original head now removed and replaced by a modern dome finial. Set on concrete platform adjacent to modern house. Located to the southwest of Loughanavally.
Appraisal
A typical late nineteenth-century water pump, of a standard design encountered throughout rural Westmeath. Water pumps played an important social role in the late nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries by providing a communal water source before the development of mains water supply. This cast-iron pump now serves as an attractive piece of street furniture, aesthetically enhancing the rural landscape to the southwest of Loughanavally.