Survey Data

Reg No

22403105


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Artistic, Social, Technical


Original Use

Water pump


Date

1860 - 1880


Coordinates

170470, 168494


Date Recorded

26/07/2004


Date Updated

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Description

Cast-iron water pump, c.1870, with banded cylindrical shaft, fluted domed cap with pointed finial, fluted spout with plain bucket grip and curved cow's tail pumping handle. Inscribed 'John Collins Ltd. Shop Street. Drogheda'

Appraisal

This water pump exhibits artistic detail in its design, with its elegantly curved handle and fluted cap and spout. It is now positioned as the focus of a semi-circular rubble stone setting. It illustrates the high standard of industrial design achieved in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Water pumps played an important social and functional role in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, by providing a communal water source.