Survey Data
Reg No
50130251
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Artistic, Social, Technical
Original Use
Post box
In Use As
Post box
Date
1930 - 1950
Coordinates
318292, 237738
Date Recorded
17/07/2018
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding round-plan cast-iron postbox, installed c. 1930, having shallow domed cap, moulded corona, neck moulding, cylindrical shaft and moulded plinth base. Curved hinged door facing south incorporating letter slot with raised frame below and raised 'P&T' motif. Raised lettering An chéad bailiú eile/Next collection'. Raised lettering to plinth 'Carron Company Stirlingshire'.
Appraisal
One of many postboxes from the early years of the Irish Republic, bearing the foundry mark of the Carron Company of Stirling. The design draws heavily on the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century pillar boxes, but is distinguished by the 'P&T' logo of the Irish Department of Posts and Telegraphs/Poist agus Teileagrafa. The Carron Company (1759-1982) was at one of the largest ironworks in Europe and an important manufacturer of cast-iron street furniture in Britain and Ireland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This postbox constitutes a working, functional component of Dublin's postal heritage, adding to the overall character of Collins Avenue.