Pump House, County Board of Health

Last edition 6" map. Image courtesy Tailte Éireann.

This was a small hut, from what I can remember, with a slate or corrugated-iron roof, located in the council yard beside the old canoe club building (a "Barna Building"-style timber hut). There was a good view of it from the playing field of the BNS (now the library building) from where we used to throw stones and see if we could get them into the river. I presume the function of the pump was to pump water from the Ballymore Eustace water treatment works to a reservoir on raised ground at the back of Dunlea's garage, before the cavernous underground reservoir was built at Old Kilcullen. I'm not sure whether the town still gets water indirectly from the former, or directly from the Old Kilcullen reservoir. It's difficult to get information out of Uisce Éireann. Perhaps this was a sewage pumping setup, but the sewage treatment "plant" was in the woods, just downstream of Liffey Bank House, and gravity fed by the sewerage system from both ends of the town, so pumping shouldn't have been necessary.

This is an excerpt from the six inch, last edition OSI map, post-1939 and pre-1950. (Logstown houses haven't been built yet).
Historical OSI maps are available on their "Irish Townland and Historical Map Viewer" website here.

Edit: The "County Kildare Board of Health and Public Assistance " was the precursor of the Eastern Health Board and later the HSE.

More information here.

Image courtesy Tailte Éireann.