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Pump at 126 Mullaghboy Road

Ballymacpeake Upper, Mid Ulster, Northern Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Pump at 126 Mullaghboy Road, Ballymacpeake Upper, Mid Ulster, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1869 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1881 · Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1883 · Scotland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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