Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Careys Fountain
Toome, Antrim and Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade B1
- Grade
- B1
- Type
- Pump
- Date of listing
- 9 September 1974
- Date of construction
- 1900 - 1919
- Address
- Careys Fountain, Junction of Randalstown and Gloverstown Roads, Toome, Co. Antrim
- Townland
- Toome
- Council
- Antrim and Newtownabbey
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.75092, -6.45775
- Date of survey
- 15 August 1995
- HB reference
- HB20/01/006
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 3 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 spirally decorated column and a fluted cap with an acorn finial. The pump is prominently located beside a pyramidal structure at this road junction. The pyramid carries a cast iron plaque with the inscription "This fountain/free to all/the design and gift of/ John Carey 1860". During road alignment Cormac Scally of UFTM monitored the excavation which revealed a well underneath the pyramid.
Historical information
The fountain is explicitly cited on the 1902 and 1921 OS 25 inch maps (PRONI Ref OS 10/1/42/15/1 and 2). It cannot be assumed that the plaque refers to the pump now insitu but could also be referring to an earlier pump or the well itself. It is believed that this is an early c20 pump drawing from the well. Further particulars in the EHS Report 'Water Pumps in Northern Ireland : A Preliminary Survey' by Fred Hammond, January 1997, Pump no 47.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
A. Style
B. Proportion
C. Ornamentation
J. Setting
Criteria for listing: historic interest
V. Authorship
Y. Social, Cultural or Economic Importance
X. Local Interest
Evaluation
Unusual association with prominent local man who paid for the installation of the pump. In good conditionand in a prominent road side position.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.