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Pump

Town Parks, Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Pump, Town Parks, Ards and North Down, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Designation
Record only (not listed)
Grade
Record Only
Type
Pump
Date of construction
1920 - 1939
Address
Pump, 1 Dalton Drive, Comber, Co. Down
Townland
Town Parks
Council
Ards and North Down
Country
Northern Ireland
Coordinates
54.54993, -5.76339
Date of survey
15 August 1995
HB reference
HB24/15/112

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1900 map "Ireland" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1900 · Ireland (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1901 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1906 · Edinburgh. Scottish Lake District. Index Map: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The Department's description

Exterior description and setting

A cow tail colsed head lever type pump with a plain spirally decorated column and a fluted cap with an acorn finial. It is inscribed 'J Miskelly Newtownards'. It is now a garden ornament.

Historical information

Recently installed at it's present location. It's owner stated that it was originally installed in the yard at the rear of Hanna and Brown, Newtownards. Further particulars in the EHS Report 'Water Pumps in Northern Ireland : A Preliinary Survey' by Fred Hammond, January 1997, Pump no 65.

Criteria for listing: architectural interest

Not listed

Criteria for listing: historic interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A cow tailed pump recently installed as a garden ornament in its present location.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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