Survey Data
Reg No
30407308
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Artistic, Social, Technical
Original Use
Water pump
Date
1860 - 1880
Coordinates
167492, 236743
Date Recorded
14/10/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding cast-iron water pump, erected c.1870, now disused. Comprises cylindrical shaft with moulded horizontal banding, fluted upper section, fluted domed cap with pointed finial, foliated decoration to spout neck and cow's tail pumping arm. Set back from the road and enclosed on three sides by rendered boundary wall.
Appraisal
Water pumps were important to nineteenth and twentieth-century social life as they provided a communal water source. The artistic detailing makes this functional object visually attractive. Though now disused, this water pump provides an attractive feature to Ballymacward.