Survey Data
Reg No
50130243
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Historical, Social, Technical
Original Use
Milestone/milepost
In Use As
Milestone/milepost
Date
1810 - 1830
Coordinates
319068, 238039
Date Recorded
25/07/2018
Date Updated
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Description
Granite milestone on Malahide Road, erected c. 1820, having tapered top with pointed head having inset angle-headed cast-iron plate with raised contrasting lettering reading 'GPO Dublin 3/Malahide 6'. Set in roughcast cement-rendered segmental-headed surround with rectangular piers and concrete coping rising from dwarf walls along Malahide Road.
Appraisal
A simple milestone with attached iron plate, standing as an important survivor of historical way-markers in Dublin City. This example attests to the historic status of the Malahide Road as a former 'post road', forming part of a programme of infrastructural upgrading by the post office in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to facilitate the easy transport of mail. The road is not shown on Taylor and Skinner's map of 1777. The distances are measured from the GPO in Dublin. The raised surround increases the visibility of the milestone and has ensured that it is a prominent feature along the roadside, unlike many that have become obscured or removed in the intervening years.