Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Fountain
Carrigenagh Upper, Newry, Mourne and Down, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Fountain
- Date of listing
- 23 November 2007
- Date of construction
- 1920 - 1939
- Address
- Fountain, Silent Valley, Annalong, Newry, Co. Down
- Townland
- Carrigenagh Upper
- Council
- Newry, Mourne and Down
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.12595, -6.00048
- Date of survey
- 08 August 2007
- HB reference
- HB16/02/068
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1891 "Ireland 16" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Description on 08.08.2007
Cast iron water fountain with an octoganal base and a fluted column. It also hs a fluted domical cap and a lions head spout. To one side is a knurled handle and on the other is a capped hydrant. This is a larger and more sturdy design that the other fountains recorded.
There is a cast inscription which reads ____FIELD KILMARNOCK. This refers to Glenfield and Kennedy the company who manufactured all of the similar pumps in N Ireland.
The fountain is now situated in the Silent Vallety close to the reservoir and to listed buildngs associated with the water supply.
Historical information
Installed as an ornamental feature c1990. It is throught to have been originally installed in Belfast. It would mave been installed at a similar time as the construction of the Silent Valley reservoir as pressurised mains water were required for the fountain to operate.
Further Particulars in the EHS Report 'Water Pumps in Northern Ireland : A Preliminary Survey' by Fred Hammond, January 1997, Pump no 78.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
J. Setting
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Z. Rarity
Y. Social, Cultural or Economic Importance
Evaluation
This is a rare and unusual water fountain type in that it is larger and more robust that the standard type installed ih the early twentieth century when pressurised mains water became available. It was originally sited in Belfast before being installed in its present position c1990.
Nearby in the register
- Exhibition hutGallery/ Museumunder 1 mi
- LodgesHouseunder 1 mi
- ‘The Restaurant’Shopunder 1 mi
- Electricity generating houseWater Works Structuresunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.