Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Pump
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
- 1940 - 1959
- Address
- Pump, 128 Mullaghboy Road, Bellaghy, Magherafelt, Co. Londonderry
- Townland
- Ballymacpeake Upper
- Council
- Mid Ulster
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.83844, -6.54871
- Date of survey
- 15 August 1995
- HB reference
- HB08/06/019
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
National Library of ScotlandDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesNational Library of Scotland
Shown on 3 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1922 "Ireland - northern section." (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 at the back of the farmhouse.
Historical information
This pump is not shown on any of the OS maps but a different one is shown at the front of the house on the 1905 OS 25 inch map ( PRONI ref OS 10/5/37/6/1). Little beyond the brass bucket barrel survives of this earlier pump. According to the owner the rear pump was installed second hand in the 1950's and used until the inception of the water mains in 1963. Further particulars in the EHS Report 'Water Pumps in Northern Ireland A Preliminary Survey' by Fred Hammond, January 1997, Pump no. 23.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Evaluation
A cow tailed pump that is in its original position at the rear of a farmhouse. It is an important reminder of the time when drinking water was only available from wells.
Nearby in the register
- Pump at 126 Mullaghboy RoadPumpunder 1 mi
- Pump sited opposite 124 Mullaghboy RoadPumpunder 1 mi
- TERMONEANY HOUSEHOUSEunder 1 mi
- 20 Tamlaghduff RoadHouse2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.