Technology and the Big House in Ireland, c. 1800–c.1930
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List of Plates

Plate 1. Big house roofs.

4

Plate 2. Built-up lead pump.

5

Plate 3. “Cow-tail” lift pump.

7

Plate 4. Force pump.

9

Plate 5. Courtyard pump.

11

Plate 6. Farmyard lift pump.

12

Plate 7. Birr Castle hoist.

18

Plate 8. Ram pump.

20

Plate 9. Turlough ram pump and plate.

22

Plate 10. Garron Tower water pump house.

23

Plate 11. Clandeboye Lake.

25

Plate 12. Courtyard hot water supply.

30

Plate 13. Bellew kitchen works.

31

Plate 14. Doneraile dual water supply.

37

Plate 15. Doneraile hot water supply.

39

Plate 16. Kitchen hot water cylinder and boiler.

40

Plate 17. Evolution of the water closet.

43

Plate 18. High-level siphon flush.

44

Plate 19. Tullynally Castle firefighting water supply.

50

Plate 20. Fire point cover.

51

Plate 21. Firefighting equipment; left, Birr Castle, right, Lissadell.

53

Plate 22. Lough Rynn bell tower.

54

Plate 23. Decorative chimney cowl.

64

Plate 24. Crom Castle and the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway.

66

Plate 25. Birr Castle hoist mechanism.

68

Plate 26. Birr Castle turf barrow.

69

Plate 27. Tullynally coach house heating.

70

Plate 28. Birr Castle heating stove drawing.

73

Plate 29. Gosford stove, skirting grille, flue access doors, and chimneys.

74

Plate 30. Cast-iron floor grating.

75

Plate 31. Larchfield stove.

76

Plate 32. Radiator 438.

79

Plate 33. Tullynally Castle corridor heating.

80

Plate 34. Tullynally Castle walled garden in 1834.

84

Plate 35. Birr Castle walled garden.

85

Plate 36. Ventilation control.

86

Plate 37. Hot wall flues.

90

Plate 38. Hot-air-heated greenhouse.

91

Plate 39. Turlough Park cast-iron boiler.

95

Plate 40. Turlough Park saddleback boiler.

97

Plate 41. Limekiln and hearth.

99

Plate 42. Banana house piping.

101

Plate 43. Larchfield boiler with pressure gauge and thermometer.

106

Plate 44. Ice house cross section.

116

Plate 45. Ice house frame.

117

Plate 46. Ice house detail.

119

Plate 47. Tullynally Castle ice house.

121

Plate 48. Birr Castle ice house.

122

Plate 49. Donard Lodge ice house.

123

Plate 50. Hand-manipulated freezer.

131

Plate 51. Pineapple-topped gatepost.

132

Plate 52. Bantry House.

141

Plate 53. Drinnahilly tower.

142

Plate 54. Sunrise reflector system.

143

Plate 55. Candle lantern.

148

Plate 56. Carriage lamp.

149

Plate 57. Eight-light lustre.

151

Plate 58. Candle reading lamp.

152

Plate 59. Bellew hall luminaire.

155

Plate 60. Rosedown luminaire.

157

Plate 61. Duplex oil burner.

158

Plate 62. Portable gas plant.

160

Plate 63. Nine-light gasolier.

162

Plate 64. Mount Stewart coal gas plant.

163

Plate 65. Mount Stewart gas retorts.

165

Plate 66. Cloncurry 1801 estate map.

167

Plate 67. Tullynally Castle gas light.

173

Plate 68. Cast-iron gas retort.

174

Plate 69. Argory acetylene plant.

177

Plate 70. Acetylene gas house and gasometer.

179

Plate 71. Acetylene gas generators.

180

Plate 72. Kylemore Abbey turbine and alternator.

187

Plate 73. Tullynally Castle dynamo and charging panel.

189

Plate 74. Lighting plant switchboard.

194

Plate 75. Electric candlestick.

196

Plate 76. Semaphore telegraph.

207

Plate 77. Edgeworth's telegraph in black, displaying “7357”.

210

Plate 78. Pony or horse walk mechanism.

217

Plate 79. Early beam engine.

219

Plate 80. Myra Castle pony walk.

220

Plate 81. Myra Castle waterwheel.

222

Plate 82. Tullynally 21-foot water wheel and 2-foot trough.

223

Plate 83. Tullynally line shaft and thresher.

224

Plate 84. Farm turbine and line shaft.

226

Plate 85. Barn thresher.

228

Plate 86. Tullynally oil engine.

231

Plate 87. Larchfield water pump.

233

Plate 88. Lough Rynn sawmill.

237

Plate 89. Edgeworth's rail carriage.

239

Plate 90. Edgeworth survey.

242

Plate 91. Crosskill's 1861 railway truck.

245