Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Pump
Tobermore, Mid Ulster, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B1
- Grade
- B1
- Type
- Pump
- Date of listing
- 16 October 1995
- Date of construction
- 1880 - 1899
- Address
- Pump, Beside 77 Main Street, Tobermore, Co Derry
- Townland
- Tobermore
- Council
- Mid Ulster
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.81034, -6.71229
- Date of survey
- 01 July 1997
- HB reference
- HB08/07/002
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Rotary type pump. Column splay shaped with fluted decorations. The cap has fluted decoration with pointed finial. This pump has a spout lug but no pedestal. In prominent roadside location.
Historical information
Pump cited here on the 1905 OS 6 inch map (PRONI OS 10/5/36/14/1). Further particulars in the EHS Report ‘Water Pumps in Northern Ireland: A Preliminary Survey ‘ by Fred Hamond, January 1997, Pump No 2.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Y. Social, Cultural or Economic Importance
X. Local Interest
Z. Rarity
Evaluation
Good example of a rotary type water pump in a prominenet roadside position. This is a rare example, and a reminder of when drinking water was only available in the street.
Nearby in the register
- ST. CRUNATHAN'S CHURCHCHURCHunder 1 mi
- Fountainunder 1 mi
- FORTWILLIAMHOUSEunder 1 mi
- 20 Draperstown RoadHouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.