Survey Data
Reg No
50130118
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Artistic, Social, Technical
Original Use
Post box
In Use As
Post box
Date
1920 - 1940
Coordinates
315969, 239075
Date Recorded
12/06/2018
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding round-plan cast-iron pillar postbox, installed c. 1930, having plinth base, raised insignia 'P&T', moulded neck, dentillated frieze, domed cap and maker's mark 'Carron Company Stirlingshire' to rear of base. Located on west side of Shanowen Avenue.
Appraisal
An attractive and functional piece of street furniture representative of the high quality of mass-produced cast-ironwork of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The insignia, representing the national postal service, dates the box to the early years of the Irish Republic, and is commensurate with a period of suburban expansion in north Dublin in the first half of the twentieth century. The Carron Company in Scotland were one of the largest ironworks throughout the industrial revolution and were famous for their postboxes and phone boxes situated throughout Ireland and Britain.