Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Pump
Drumnahare, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B2
- Grade
- B2
- Type
- Pump
- Date of listing
- 29 December 2006
- Date of construction
- 1900 - 1919
- Address
- Pump, Outside Reformed Presbyterian Church, Dublin Road, Loughbrickland, Banbridge, Co. Down
- Townland
- Drumnahare
- Council
- Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.31431, -6.30228
- Date of survey
- 15 August 1995
- HB reference
- HB17/03/058
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
A cow tail closed head lever type pump with a plain shaped spirally decorated column. It has a plain cap but with a 'standard' cast on top (? A replacement?). The lid over the adjoining well is inscribed 'Banbridge Foundry' The pump is situated on the roadside outside the Meeting House and has two small octagonal granite posts at the front.
Historical information
Cited on the 1918 OS 6 inch map (PRONI Ref OS 6/3/34/4). Further particulars in the EHS Report 'Water Pumps in Northern Ireland : A Preliminary Survey' by Fred Hammond, January 1997, Pump no. 64.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
J. Setting
K. Group value
Criteria for listing: historic interest
X. Local Interest
Y. Social, Cultural or Economic Importance
Evaluation
A good example of a cow tailed water pump situated in a prominent roadside position. It has group value with the other water pumps in Loughbrickland.
Nearby in the register
- Loughbrickland Reformed Presbyterian ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
- St Mellan's Parish ChurchChurchunder 1 mi
- Telephone Kioskunder 1 mi
- Pump in front of 18 Scarva StreetPumpunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.