Reg No
15000399
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Artistic, Technical
Original Use
Vent pipe
Date
1870 - 1900
Coordinates
203863, 241097
Date Recorded
06/09/2004
Date Updated
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Freestanding cast-iron vent pipe, erected c.1885, consisting of cast-iron cylindrical shaft with splayed saw tooth-profiled parapet over fluted cast-iron base section. Located at junction in road to immediate south of rubble limestone boundary wall.
This vent pipe, which is now disused, is a physical reminder of the development of public services and utilities in the late nineteenth-century in Athlone. The pipe now forms a subtle feature in the streetscape and is of some design merit, having been conceived as an aesthetic as well as functional item.