Survey Data
Reg No
50030007
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Social, Technical
Original Use
Milestone/milepost
In Use As
Milestone/milepost
Date
1820 - 1830
Coordinates
322530, 238277
Date Recorded
10/10/2014
Date Updated
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Description
Dressed granite milestone, erected c. 1825, having chamfered sides. One of series on footpath along north side of Howth Road. Inset cast-iron plate reading 'P.O/Dublin/5/Howth/4'.
Appraisal
This milestone makes an attractive, if subtle, impression on the roadside. It is a reminder of nineteenth-century civic organisation, as one of a series which marked the distance between the G.P.O. in Dublin city centre and the port and mail station at Howth. Thomas Telford was contracted in the early nineteenth century to improve the Howth Road to ensure the speedy delivery of mail.