Ballybrophy water tower bites the dust

[minister_for_hardship]

Probably was one of the very few reinforced concrete water towers on the island?

https://www.leinsterexpress.ie/news/local-news/1708446/end-of-an-era-irish-rail-demolish-historic-water-tower-at-laois-train-station.html

[Broithe]

It's been looking a bit dodgy for many years now, and was fenced off a long time ago.

An unplanned self-demolition would have been problematic for the adjacent buildings.

This was it in 2008.

There was a lot of spalling and resultant exposed reinforcement bars.

 

I did once come across a photo with a poor view of the earlier tower, a smaller and rectangular affair.

None of the potential suspects that I have grilled can remember the earlier one or even the round one being built.

[Broithe]

2 hours ago, Broithe said:

I did once come across a photo with a poor view of the earlier tower, a smaller and rectangular affair.

None of the potential suspects that I have grilled can remember the earlier one or even the round one being built.

Well, this is not the picture I was referring to above, but it does show a (presumably) earlier tower, still there after the 'new' one was constructed.

https://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000305110

And it was round...

The date given is 1960.
 

The picture I think I remember may show the same tower there on its own, but in virtually a silhouette view, so maybe I just surmised that it was rectangular...