Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Fountain opposite RC Church
Loughans, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- Pump
- Date of construction
- 1900 - 1919
- Address
- Fountain opposite RC Church, Loughans Road, Gilford, Co Down
- Townland
- Loughans
- Council
- Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.37677, -6.35909
- Date of survey
- 15 August 1995
- HB reference
- HB17/01/051
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 1891 "Ireland 16" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
Description at 15.08.1995 A fountain with a plain shaped fluted column and a lions mouth spout. Only the column survives with it's lions mouth. Design suggests it was made by Glenfield and Kennedy of Kilmarnock.
Description at 07.07.2006. Pump has been removed.
Historical information
Not cited on the 1903-04 OS 6 inch map (PRONI Ref OS 6/3/26/3). Cited on the 1903/17 edition (/4). Further particulars in the EHS Report 'Water Pumps in Northern Ireland : A Preliminary Survey' by Fred Hammond, January 1997, Pump no 44.
07.07.2006 Pump is no longer in position. Presumably removed when the new housing was constructed.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
This water fountain has been removed.
Nearby in the register
- Former National School, St John's Roman Catholic Church, Castle Hill, Gilford, Co DownRecreational Clubunder 1 mi
- St John's Roman Catholic ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
- Gilford Primary SchoolSchoolunder 1 mi
- Castle HillNo type recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.