Survey Data

Reg No

31204023


Rating

Regional


Categories of Special Interest

Artistic, Historical, Social


Original Use

Post box


In Use As

Post box


Date

1939 - 1962


Coordinates

124140, 318401


Date Recorded

06/07/2011


Date Updated

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Description

Wall-mounted cast-iron "wall box" post box, between 1939-62, with "P7T [Posts and Telegraphs]" monogram. Set in boundary wall.

Appraisal

A "wall box" post box supplied by [Thomas] Jessop Davis (closed 1962) of Enniscorthy, County Wexford, also known as Saint John's Ironworks and Foundry, representing an interesting example of mass-produced cast-iron work making a pleasing, if largely inconspicuous visual statement in an urban street scene with embellishments identifying the artistic potential of the composition including the Cló Gaelach or "Old Irish Lettering" defining the monogram of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs (fl. 1924-84).