Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Pump at 126 Mullaghboy Road
Ballymacpeake Upper, Mid Ulster, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Pump
- Date of listing
- 29 December 2006
- Date of construction
- 1880 - 1899
- Address
- Pump at 126 Mullaghboy Road, Bellaghy, Magherafelt, Co. Londonderry
- Townland
- Ballymacpeake Upper
- Council
- Mid Ulster
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.83725, -6.54712
- Date of survey
- 15 August 1995
- HB reference
- HB08/06/017
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A cow tail closed head lever pump with a plain shaped spirally decorated column and a fluted cap with an acorn finial. It is located to the rear of the house, in the farmyard and adjoins a concrete water tank which was used to cool milk.
Historical information
Cited on the OS 25 inch maps of 1905 and 1927 (PRONI Ref OS 10/5/37/6/1 and 2). Further particulars in the EHS report 'Water Pumps in Northern Ireland:@ A Preliminary Survey' by Fred Hammond, January 1997, Pump No. 21.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Evaluation
A well preserved cow tailed water pump situated in its original position in a farmyard.
Nearby in the register
- Pump sited opposite 124 Mullaghboy RoadPumpunder 1 mi
- Pumpunder 1 mi
- TERMONEANY HOUSEHOUSEunder 1 mi
- 20 Tamlaghduff RoadHouse1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.