powered farm machinery, 204–205, 221, 227, 229–230, 236, 238, 248, 255

powered sawmill, 191, 192, 204–205, 221, 227, 229, 235–238, 243, 248–249

Powerscourt, Lord, 166, 168

prefabricated church spire, 214, 245

pressure head, 232

private electric lighting installations, 184

public gas lighting, 181

pump

cast-iron, 6, 22

cow hair insulation, 6

cow-tail, 6–7, 58

floating pole, 10

force, 3, 8–11, 15, 24, 50, 58, 216

frost damage, 6, 16

large-capacity, 232

maintenance, 15

plumber-made lead, 5

priming, 6

ram, 3, 16, 19–22, 48, 232

sectional cast-iron barrel, 11

tree, 4

twin-cylinder, 232–233

two-horse engine driven, 218

vacuum, 10, 19

wooden supporting box, 6

pumping, 2, 6, 8, 10, 13–15, 18, 47, 51, 58, 205, 216–219, 229, 248

pumping limits, 13

pumps installation and repair, 6

railway

guide-wheel truck, 239, 249

laying down, 243

portable farm, 244, 250

use on bogs, 206, 238, 240–241, 243–244, 246, 249–250, 252

railways portable steel (decauville), 245–246

rain, 1–2, 4, 8–9, 11, 14–18, 26–27, 36–37, 57–58

rainwater, 2, 4, 8–9, 11, 16–17, 36–37, 57–58, 118

rainwater gravity feed, 4, 8

rainwater tank, 17

ram pump, 3, 16, 19–22, 48, 232

Rathrobin, 161, 176

Rawdon, Sir Arthur, 91

reading room candles, 150

removable flue tiles, 69

river, 18–19, 21–24, 55–56, 141

Riversdale House, 3, 15

Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, 92

Roe Park, 182, 185

Rosedown luminaire, 157

Rosemount, xxiii, 235, 249

Rosse, earls of, 17, 30, 52, 67

Rosse, Mary, countess of, 72, 107, 183

rushlight, 144, 198

Ruston & Hornsby oil engine, 231

sawmill. See powered sawmill

sawpit, 236, 239

self provisioning, 108, 135, 199, 257

self sufficiency, xxiv–xxv, 92, 112, 199, 230, 251, 255

servants' quarters lighting, 197

sluice, 225–229, 248

smoke flues, 75

Soames, James, 146

sperm (whale) oil, 153