Survey Data

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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Description

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.

Appraisal

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.